John McKown wrote:
We (well, me) are always complaining how the z/OS UNIX tools simply are
not a good or plentiful as the ones on GNU/Linux. So I had a weird
thought. Why not create a program on z/OS UNIX, in the WINE tradition,
which can load z/Linux binaries and have support DLLs which implement the
Linux ABI? From what I can think of, this would mean porting the ELF
loader to z/OS, then creating a z/OS equivalent of GNU's glibc.
Of course, this does not address the ASCII vs. EBCDIC issue.
Is this just too weird to consider?
What tools are you looking for?
Why re-invent the wheel on z/OS? It's already available. It's called Linux. It
already runs on System z.
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