On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:10:02 -0600, P S <[email protected]> wrote: >Do folks "care" about USS?
We all do. Definitely. Without it, no zOS would run... >That is, do most z/OS shops actually use >USS for anything beyond the things they're forced to (TCP/IP stuff, >for example)? Yes, for building and testing shell scripts to run Java application. And for the production run of these applications. >My experience suggests that the general answer is "No" (with >exceptions, of course). YMMV... >The related question is: Do folks use C on z/OS much? Yes, we do. Around 60% of our production is C, be it that those are CICS and batch programs and run in the non-Unix environment. >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? I'd say Unix System Services and C are two separate things. In some shops, I would imagine there would be overlap between the two, in others not at all. One does not need one to do the other and vice/versa. Cheers, Jantje. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
