There is a restaurant near me here, just west of Boston in the United States, that serves 'fusion cuisine', its dishes are a mixture of the ingredients and techniques of Greek, Indochinese, and French cuisine.
Some of these dishes are successful, but too many are not: their menu descriptions read well, but they do not really work. Analogously, combining attractive features from UNIX and [different] attractive features from z/OS may sometimes yield a viable, powerful new facility. Often, however, it will not; and Shmuel is right to be concerned about and suspicious of the semantics of such 'unholy combinations'. Ze'ev appears to me to want to graft what are essentially interactive, conversational facilities onto JCL, which is a batch facility. This may well be possible, but doing it will require careful thought and much experimentation/evolutionary operation. Meanwhile, psittacism featuring the numbers 8 and 44 will not be helpful. They are not really the problem. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
