I'm just about to finish up a module that someone might find useful. It emulates two utilities found on IBM Mainframes, IEBUPDTE and IEBPTPCH. For a general discussion, lets just say that these two utilities are similar to tar/untar. I wrote them so that I can bundle local files to upload, and so that I can un-bundle files downloaded from the mainframe.
If I were to start fresh, I'd like OS390::IEBUtils. A bit of history: IBM's OS has gone through many names, the three most recent are 'MVS', 'OS/390', and 'z/OS', so it's a little tricky using the OS name as an identifier. The two most closely related existing modules are MVS::VBFile and Convert::OS390. What's a little bit unusual is that this code would only be of interest to a mainframer, but it's designed to run on a PC. Your thoughts are appreciated. I've got a good bit of work in the modules, and don't want to gum up the works with an ineffective or misleading name. -- Paul Boin http://www.intertechconsulting.net (717) 382-9711
