> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 > Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:33 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Open MVS question > > > Agreed. The problem is that the support for MVS DSN's is not > universal in > all the tools. This is flat wrong, IMHO, if they ever hope to get > programmers who have to deal with MVS DSN's all day every day > to use these > services. > > Moving MVS DSN's to (x)FS via "cp" command or whatever is NOT > the answer. > Processing them directly is. > > Peter
However, remember that many of the z/OS UNIX tools were not written by IBM. IIRC, a company named MKS ported a number of the tools from some other UNIX. I doubt that they rewrote any code using open() to use fopen() so that MVS datasets would be supported. Of course, one could wonder why open() was not written to support MVS datasets like fopen() was. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
