The lack of support for source in all of the languages for which IBM provides compilers is a long standing irritant.
As to OMVS, it would seem simple to provide for SMP to do things like setting file attributes rather than relying on post processing. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 2:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMP/E ++HFS Attributes On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 09:14:11 -0500, Kurt Quackenbush wrote: >> >> ST_FILEFMT >> And: >> ST_CCSID >> >> Is it possible to specify the rest of these for a ++HFS element? > >Nope. If you want to set or preserve these file attributes using >SMP/E's existing capabilities I think you'd have to specify BINARY and >tell SMP/E to invoke a shell script that will set the appropriate file >attributes. > There's some trepidation here about post-processing. It compromises the SMP/E audit trail. >Is this purely an academic exercise, or would builtin SMP/E support for >these attributes be truly interesting? > Some of each. ISPF Edit/Browse now has support for multiple file and terminal CCSIDs and formats. SMP/E lags. If I needed to support those, I might find the easiest approach to package a tarball and unpack it in post-processinng. Of course, that's the technique most familiar to developers with a UNIX background. There's a rift in this community. Some advocate fine-grained issue-oriented service with greatest isolation from collateral damage from repairs to defects not experienced. Others prefer level-set service with greatest protection from generating a configuration the supplier has never tested. ++PROGRAM is a de-facto level-set for the entire program object. Unpacking a tarball is a level-set for an entire directory structure. Some are dismayed that Java service level-set-like, too coarse-grained. And I wonder why occasional updates to the Java timezone database require unusual administrative action rather than appearing in the PTF stream. Of course, all this is controlled by the product developers, not SMP/E. But SMP/E is weak in the variety of languages in which it supports delivey as source. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
