Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] PIPSYSF question....

2021-09-17 Thread Rob van der Heij 
On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 at 20:41, John P. Hartmann  wrote:

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> My suggestion, Dave, is that you go through the contents of PIPSYSF and
> then tell IBM which function you really want integrated and supported.


That’s my suggestion as well. There’s things in the pipeline to do the
entire lot of compression for example. The rudimentary grep has problems,
and even though Melinda sent me her SNOBOL manual, we don’t have the
resources available to support that right now. So asking for including all
from pipsysf is not likely to work. But voting for specific function that
you need helps set priorities

Rob

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Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] PIPSYSF question....

2021-09-17 Thread John P. Hartmann 

Presuming I am part of the group:

The reason that what is now PIPSYSF did not get rolled into the various 
levels of CMS/TSO pipelines is that the remaining function is not always 
working as you want.  Or perhaps is (ghasp) buggy.


Do you really want IBM to spend the effort to document PATTERN? I expect 
the SNOBOL manual is long out of print, so there may even be copyright 
issues here if IBM has to include material from that book.


I was about to roll TERSE in some twenty-five years ago when I 
discovered a bug.  So I pulled it at the last moment as it became clear 
to me that I would never be able to build a regression test reference.


My suggestion, Dave, is that you go through the contents of PIPSYSF and 
then tell IBM which function you really want integrated and supported.


Perhaps someone will move PIPSYSF from Marist to the IBM download page.  
You have my blessing.


On 17/09/2021 19:36, Dave Jones wrote:

I would like to judge the group's opinion on the idea of asking IBM to
roll the PIPSYSF functionality into the base CMS Pipelines package
included in z/VM 7.x.  Good idea or not?

Thanks.

DJ

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[CMS-PIPELINES] PIPSYSF question....

2021-09-17 Thread Dave Jones 

I would like to judge the group's opinion on the idea of asking IBM to
roll the PIPSYSF functionality into the base CMS Pipelines package
included in z/VM 7.x.  Good idea or not?

Thanks.

DJ

--
BEST REGARDS

   DAVE JONES
Managing Director for zSystems Support, zLinux, and Cloud
++1 281.578.7544 (Cell)
Web: www.itconline.com
18502 Purdy Ct. Houston, TX  77084  USA