On 2020-04-22, at 14:27:09, Lionel Dyck wrote: > > For those of you who would like to encourage IBM to release TSO Pipes as > part of the z/OS base please go to this URL and vote > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe > <https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=47699 >> &CR_ID=47699 (note the current vote is 188 which places it at the top in > the z/OS area). > > Having TSO Pipes as a native part of the z/OS distribution would help > everyone as software developers would then be free to use it when developing > applications, products, and tools knowing that every site has it available. > To what extent do POSIX pipes provide an alternative? Every site has them available. Yes, I know they're different.
And I wonder about the possibility of a hybrid. Is it possible to associate a Pipelines connector with a POSIX descriptor, which might be a character special file, which might be a pipe, and have some UNIX stages running concurrently with some Pipelines stages? Can CMS/TSO Pipelines be run under z/OS batch, such as IRXJCL, or is it inextricably bound to TSO? -- gil
