Shades of Monty Python: IBM: "Can I help you sir?" Customer: "I'm looking for an MVS IO package for Python". IBM: "You're the fifth bloke in here today asking for that, there's no demand for it.."
On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 1:15 PM David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26/9/22 10:43, Charles Mills wrote: > >> It's trivial to write an MVS I/O package if you have a C compiler. > > One might ask then why IBM has not done so. > > I would suggest that they have not had a requirement. IBM use Python in > their analytics products and for new stuff like Ansible. Same with > golang, they need it for Kubernetes and OpenShift for z/CX containers. I > doubt very much if many customers have tried golang. It's a great > language now it supports generics. As fast as C++ with many advantages. > > > > Charles > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of David Crayford > > Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2022 6:57 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: IBM python documentation? > > > > On 26/9/22 07:34, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >> I know Rocket's port of python has some documented enhancements to > support MVS dataset access among other things, but I have failed to find > any documentation on the IBM websites for an IBM-produced "python > Programmers Guide" (or similar) that would describe and provide examples > for any "IBM-specific" functional enhancements to the base language > facilities. > >> > >> Is there any such documentation? Or are the python.org documentation > websites the only reference material available for the IBM port of python? > (i.e., no functional enhancements at all are provided in the IBM port) > > Correct! It's trivial to write an MVS I/O package if you have a C > compiler. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
