On 2014-10-06 06:59, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > Cross-Posted to IBM-MAIN and MVS-OE > > People at our installation have got used to use BASH. I think it would be > about time BASH becomes an integral part of z/OS UNIX Sevices. I have opened > a requirement for this. > > Title: Provide officially supported version of BASH shell for z/OS UNIX > > Link: > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=60048 > Since I have not become a bash partisan, there are several things common on other UNIXen to which I'd give a higher priority:
o SSL o find -i o find -l o find -follow # but breaking symlink cycles. o find -print0 o xargs -0 o less o xterm o Warning and continuing rather than termination by various utilities, particularly diff, encountering a binary file when text is expected o diff -u o patch compatibility with diff -u o Further enhancing the Enhanced ASCII support so FOSS software could be built without accommodations for EBCDIC And, not an enhancement, but a bug which IBM support has inexplicably declared WAD: Fix the EN_US collating sequence! On 2014-10-06 07:40, Bob Shannon wrote: > > Just my opinion, but since BASH is a port of open source software, I don't > think it can ever be incorporated into USS. > It's Product Differentiation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_differentiation ... IBM takes pride in providing only features that can't be got free from other sources. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN