On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:10:02 -0600, P S <[email protected]> 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...! >
Generally, the answer is probably no to both. But the same can be said about many features of many components across the platform. How many shops use features like NFS, DFS/SMB, IPSEC, CSF, etc. The list can go on and on. We have a very robust and diverse platform. Plenty of shops use C (C++) and much more use Java (which means z/OS Unix as well). Obviously any shop who that been using WebSphere or the HTTP server has been using z/OS Unix and Java. Things you are "forced to" use it for include all the subsystems now (DB2, MQ, CICS, IMS) as well as many other IBM software products (TSM, Netview, COBOL, XML, etc.) and ISV software products. Don't forget about the ported tools also (especially OpenSSH). Even going back 7 years when I consulted full time - long before zAAPs, I had 2 clients starting to do a lot of Java (BPXBATCH, not WebSphere). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
