There was a drive in PERL-MVS (http://lists.perl.org/list/perl-mvs.html) to work on that stuff, but it looks like that they had to drop EBCDIC support because there were no porters. I myself do not posses the needed expertise, so I did not reply, but you may view the latest email (from a year ago) here: http://www.mail-archive.com/perl-mvs@perl.org/msg01451.html They seem to suggest that one coul;d compile Perl on z/OS, though (sans EBCDIC I assume)
Ze'ev Atlas 201-801-0378 201-805-0286 (cell) ________________________________ From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+...@patriot.net> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:52 PM Subject: Re: Break a dataset into new record boundaries? In <1358352865.70255.yahoomail...@web120503.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, on 01/16/2013 at 08:14 AM, "Ze'ev Atlas" <zatl...@yahoo.com> said: >Don't misunderstand me, I love Rexx... just would want it to have >better IO and regular expressions (in z/OS - on other platforms >Rexx already has this capability, though in POSIX sematics). >To that end, I've ported PCRE to z/OS That should be useful, although it would still be nice to have a current Perl; 4.8.7 is pretty long in the tooth. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
