Tim, How is z/OSMF being enhanced to submit jobs to z/OS Unix??? (or what does the preview say that leads you to believe this? )
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com +1 636.300.0901 On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:57 AM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm reliably informed there's more UNIX-related content planned for z/OS > 2.1 than is listed in the preview announcement. The preview announcement is > evidently what IBM feels comfortable describing at this stage, but I > wouldn't be surprised if there's a bit more. (I'm speaking only for myself, > as always.) > > Also, you have to read IBM announcement letters in their totality. z/OS > UNIX substantially benefits from new features and improvements that are > listed in other sections besides the section labeled "UNIX." For example, > are the ISPF-related improvements involving much more support for ASCII and > Unicode highly relevant to UNIX? You bet, but they're listed in a different > section as I recall. > > zFS, Unicode, and z/OS Management Facility (to pick three examples among > several) all have tons of UNIX relevance -- even exclusive UNIX relevance > -- but they're listed in other sections. For example, z/OSMF is being > enhanced to make it much easier to submit jobs directly to z/OS UNIX. Is > that a UNIX enhancement? Sure, I think so, and also because z/OSMF is > something that lives in UNIX. (And in z/OS 2.1 it'll be much easier to > install and get up and running because it'll be Liberty packaged. The > WebSphere Liberty Profile is very convenient.) > > The stream I/O extensions are described pretty well in the preview > announcement, I think. Even if they aren't, all should be clear by > September. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Timothy Sipples > Consulting Enterprise IT Architect (Based in Singapore) > E-Mail: [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
