On Fri, 26 May 2023 at 15:30, Radoslaw Skorupka <
[email protected]> wrote:
[...]

> Not to defend Timothy or z/OS :-)


Indeed... :-)


> To be contentious: nowadays nobody cares. Indeed, when we talk about
> non-Windows distributed system we usually think about Linux. Even POWER
> machines are more and more used for Linux workloads, not AIX. And the
> Linux is not UNIX certified.
>

The only use I have found in many years for having z/OS UNIX certified is
so that when someone says they hear that z/OS has a "UNIX emulator" or any
one of many similar bogus claims, I can say "No, z/OS *is* UNIX. And BTW
Linux is *not* UNIX." (Of course the FSF would say, Gnu's Not Unix.)"

Tony H.

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