John, I think I would go with the UNIX route that you wanted in the first place. The people at your site are going to have to deal with UNIX at some point. z/OS keeps moving more and more to offloading a lot of functionality to the USS component, so the sooner they learn to deal with it the better off they will be in the long run.
My 2cents worth anyway... Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

