Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7405709421112672.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 06/17/2013 at 08:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:30:19 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Will they only offer Perl 5.8.7, or will they offer a more current Perl? Did Il cimento

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:20:37 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Did Il cimento dell'EBCDIC e dell'UNICODE ever get resolved in Perl? There's some experimental work, but the Perldela for 5.18 warns that they will drop the MVS support if nobody is willing to pick up the ball. I believe that

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes: I hate EBCDIC! old reference that EBCDIC was one of the biggest goofs for 360 ... was supposed to have been ascii ... EBCDIC and the P-Bit (The Biggest Computer Goof Ever) http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM -- virtualization experience starting

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-19 Thread John Gilmore
Without, of course, agreeing with them, I am, again of course, familiar with Paul Gilmartin's 'I hate EBCDIC' refrain. More interesting in the question: Do he and that ilk despise UNICODE in equal measure? He quotes Shmuel's question | Did Il cimento dell'EBCDIC e dell'UNICODE ever get |

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-19 Thread John McKown
Why would anybody who likes ASCII despise UNICODE? I could easily be confused, but US-ASCII is a proper subset of UNICODE. In particular, of UTF-8. Unless I have misunderstood everything I've ever read about Unicode. And both are close, but not identical(?), to ISO8859-1. I normally tag z/OS UNIX

Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread Jake anderson
Hello, Cross posted to IBM MAIN and MVS-OE list. we have a requirement of getting the ported tools feature to our Z/OS 1.13 system. I referred http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA22944. I understood that UA40677 is fix which introduces the ported tools features. I tried

Re: [MVS-OE] Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
: [MVS-OE] Ported Tools - Unix Hello, Cross posted to IBM MAIN and MVS-OE list. we have a requirement of getting the ported tools feature to our Z/OS 1.13 system. I referred http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA22944. I understood that UA40677 is fix which introduces the ported tools

Re: [MVS-OE] Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [MVS-OE] Ported Tools - Unix Jake, According to the text this is not a FIX and was released in 2008. So not necessarily needed for your environment of z/OS V1.13 This is an SPE (Small Programming Enhancement) and released in 2008. So I do not think it would apply

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread John McKown
The actual Ported Tools is a set of products which are freely licensed. When you order z/OS (or later as an independent order), you need to order the Ported Tools from the same site. You can order Ported Tools to be bundled with your z/OS order. Or you can order them later. They are in the list

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 06/17/13 10:09, Walter Marguccio wrote: snip AFAIK the Ported Tools are now distribued by Rocket Software: http://www.rocketsoftware.com/portedtools and have been rebranded. I can't tell you whether the PTF you claim is in the package, but I'd try to download the tools from then

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
There was mention of this by IBM on this at SHARE: https://share.confex.com/share/120/webprogram/Handout/Session12249/SHARE%20February%202013%20magdall.pdf (see page 9) According to this, the packages that will be picked up by Rocket include: perl, cURL, bzip2, sudo, and PHP This list does not

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread John Eells
Mark Jacobs wrote: snip What is the difference between the Rocket Software Ported tools package and the one ordered via ShopZSeries? (Posting on behalf of Jeff Magdall, who saw your post.) I wanted to respond to the questions you asked about IBM's Ported Tools offering. If you look at

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 6/17/2013 1:12 PM, John Eells wrote: I will share that we (IBM) are working on plans to update our Apache HTTP Server and OpenSSH offerings, and we will try to make information available as we conclude. It would be nice if OpenSSH and cURL came with z/OS without the PITA separate order

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread John McKown
I'm fairly sure that went I ordered z/OS 1.12 back when, I just clicked on all the Ported Tools entry and the order included them, already integrated. But it's been a while and I've slept so many times that details are as fuzzy as the Scottish coast in the fog. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Ed

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread Mark Jacobs
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of John Eells [ee...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 4:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Ported Tools - Unix Mark Jacobs wrote: snip What is the difference between the Rocket Software Ported tools package and the one ordered via ShopZSeries

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAHm_n2mEBW-wAB+K8rXaxJkFmJu_pQjPxMxPJZ7u=jyBp=h...@mail.gmail.com, on 06/17/2013 at 11:17 AM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com said: According to this, the packages that will be picked up by Rocket include: perl, cURL, bzip2, sudo, and PHP Will they only offer Perl 5.8.7, or will they offer a

Re: Ported Tools - Unix and Re: Batch TSO COPY?

2013-06-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:54:09 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 6/17/2013 1:12 PM, John Eells wrote: I will share that we (IBM) are working on plans to update our Apache HTTP Server and OpenSSH offerings, and we will try to make information available as we conclude. Is OpenSSH under a GPL-like

Re: Ported Tools - Unix

2013-06-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:30:19 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Will they only offer Perl 5.8.7, or will they offer a more current Perl? Did Il cimento dell'EBCDIC e dell'UNICODE ever get resolved in Perl? -- gil -- For

Re: Ported Tools - Unix and Re: Batch TSO COPY?

2013-06-17 Thread Mark Post
On 6/17/2013 at 09:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: Is OpenSSH under a GPL-like license? No. The Linux RPM for it says BSD 3-Clause; X11/MIT the same as curl. Mark Post -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff