P S wrote:
Do folks "care" about USS? That is, do most z/OS shops actually use
USS for anything beyond the things they're forced to (TCP/IP stuff,
for example)?
My experience suggests that the general answer is "No" (with
exceptions, of course).
The related question is: Do folks use C on z/OS much?
And the converged question is: Do the two sets overlap? That is, do
most/all of the folks who DO use C on z/OS do so under USS?
It's interesting trying to figure this out, and this is the best
sample set I can easily get at...!
Thanks.
All interesting questions to me, especially, since I've developed
six courses for z/OS UNIX (one of which discusses using Assembler,
COBOL, PL/I, and C for writing z/OS UNIX applications). But only
the intro course has garnered much interest (I've taught that
probably a dozen times).
My guess is there is not enough business case; and IBM hasn't
really done the job of encouraging USS, since revenues seem to
come more from WebSphere and zLinux movement.
I've been trying to point out how you can use z/OS UNIX to host
your website (Internet or corporate Intranet) using the free
HTTP server that comes with z/OS (or even the newly ported
Apache server, which is also free). It's all great fun and
could be a money saver (I'm not really in touch with the
prices for all this), but the story has not been well told.
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