I do not know if it is from the IBM Ported Tools or where, but we have Perl on z/OS:
/VERSYSB/usr/lpp/perl/lib/5.8.7/ Lloyd ----- Original Message ---- From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, July 21, 2011 9:51:22 AM Subject: Perl (was: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands) On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:03:51 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >Well, pipes are sometimes useful. > Amen. >Perl is better than Rexx for parsing. Unfortunately, no current Perl >is available for MVS due to EBCDIC-Unicode conflicts. > Has anyone tried compiling it with the ASCII compiler switch (and XPLINK) and relying on code page autoconversion? Would this even be useful? What is the intrinsic code page for Perl? UTF-8? Is this within autoconversion's capability? (I'm not volunteering; I know no Perl) I hate EBCDIC! -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
