On Sep 17, 2021, at 12:41:17, John P. Hartmann wrote:
>    ...
> 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.
>  
That illustrates that Pipelines doesn't play well with others.  Or,
conversely, that others don't play well with Pipelines.  To accomplish
such amity would require:

o That a Pipeline connector could appear as a pseudo filemode so a
  Classic utility could operate oblivious that it was communicating
  with a Pipe rather than an MDFS file.  z/OS Batchpipes accomplishes
  the analogue with the SUBSYS option on the DD statement.

o That Classic CMS utilities such as TERSE operate concurrently with
  other stages.  Essentially impossible given the design of CMS.
  z/OS Batchpipes accomplishes this by running some stages in separate
  address spaces.

Is z/OS AMATERSE Batchpipes-friendly?  (Ir's UNIX-hostile.)

-- gil

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