On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 14:44:34 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >On 11/02/2013 1:04 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: >> >> To steer back to the topic at hand, there's a long list of UNIX-related >> enhancements listed in the z/OS 2.1 Preview. Many/most of them match what >> I'd like to see personally. > I didn't see a "long list"; merely the paragraph David quotes below.
>Indeed, the following is interesting. If they are planning on >implementing stdio-ext then that will make porting the likes of >autotools much, much easier. And if autotools can be ported then so can >lots more FOSS that requires it. > Do you mean GNU autoconf/configure? One more thing I dearly wish is gmake's VPATH. >"Additional file I/O programming interfaces for z/OS UNIX System >Services. These interfaces, while not part of a formal UNIX standard, >have been implemented on other UNIX platforms, and are planned to be >provided with a new header . >This is intended to make it improve the portability for these >applications between z/OS and other UNIX platforms." > You stated much more than I can infer from the paragraph you quoted. Should I read further in the Preview for Timothy's "long list", or have you another source of information? Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
