I appreciate the fast response from Ze'ev to fix the problem with zos.lked.text.
However, I take issue with this comment (#2 below) on his PCRE web page. I do not think that mainframe developers are any more conservative than those on other platforms - Everyone has to work within the framework of their environment and with what they are given to work with. Non-mainframe developers may have access to a lot more free software than we do on the mainframe where most products have to be purchased, so mainframers have less stuff to play around with. And many installations will not run unlicensed, un-supported products for maintenance reasons. But it is not because they are culturally more conservative, IT wise. *************** The most important tasks are outside of the technical world of implementing and testing more and more features and to the fullest extent. The main tasks are actually: 1. To advertise the existence of this port so people may try it and 2. To overcome the cultural issue of the traditional conservatism of Mainframe application developers and get them to understand, learn and use regular expressions -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Prins Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 11:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Announcing z/OS port of PCRE 8.31 - version 0.1 beta Ze'ev asked me to forward this: === Ze'ev === OK I joined the list but did not get confirmation yet Would you please answer for me this one time: ------------ I will upload a new file tonight when I get to my private office Appology ---------------- Ze'ev Atlas === Ze'ev === On 2012-12-03 19:41, Barkow, Eileen wrote:> File zos.lked.txt is missing from the downloaded zip file (pcre.zip). > > > 12/03/2012 10:17 AM <DIR> . > 12/03/2012 10:17 AM <DIR> .. > 11/13/2012 12:49 AM 923 ADDJCL.JCL > 11/13/2012 12:37 AM 5,745 addmem.rex > 12/03/2012 10:17 AM 2,836 inst.txt > 11/13/2012 12:48 AM 2,687 LICENCE.txt > 12/03/2012 09:40 AM 506,738 pcre.zip > 11/17/2012 11:38 PM 26,074 pcre_native_zOS_port.V0.1ba.txt > 11/14/2012 11:11 PM 68,641 zos.cob.txt > 11/17/2012 11:28 PM 21,194 zos.jcl.txt > 11/11/2012 11:02 PM 1,826,082 zos.load.txt > 11/13/2012 12:33 AM 666,377 zos.test.txt > 10 File(s) 3,127,297 bytes > 2 Dir(s) 170,170,175,488 bytes free > > H:\pcre> > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Robert Prins > Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 11:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Announcing z/OS port of PCRE 8.31 - version 0.1 beta > > From a posting on the forum of "that" system: > > <quote> > I've ported the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) to native z/OS (no > USS [Unix Servicses], just good ol' native z/OS), including COBOL API. The > installation file is available on: > http://www.zaconsultants.net on the downloads page. > > The concept of Regular Expressions is new for most COBOL and PL/I programmers > on the z/OS platform, but is old news for Unix and Linux programmers. Regular > Expressions is a technology that allows finding patterns in text strings in > ways that are not currently available in COBOL, PL/I or even Rexx. > > The power of regular expressions is widely used by Java, VB.net, C#, PHP and > Perl, to mention some of the most popular languages. The package that I've > ported is the same one that is used by PHP and is highly compatible with Perl > which is the standard setter for that stuff. In other words, I brought the > most advanced form of Regular Expressions into the COBOL, PL/I and z/OS world. > > I hope that the availability of PCRE would encourage all z/OS COBOL and PL/I > programmers to learn about regular expressions and utilize this port. The > license is BSD which pretty much allows use and even resell software based on > it with very few real limitations. > ------------------------ > We are working to introduce PCRE to PL/I for MVS, z/VM and Rexx, but > COBOL and PL/I enterprise seem to be working fins > > The files should also be available on CBTTTAPE.ORG and some other mirror site. > ZA</quote> > > Robert > -- > Robert AH Prins > [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
