On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:26:03 -0400, Rick Troth wrote: >[apologies ... this got long ... I count three topics] > >I was actually rather stunned at the time (circa 1995), /amazed/ that >MVS could have a Unix face. Wow! >And then they did it on VM too. (With understandable constraints because >CMS is a DAT-off environment.) > Shame om IBM. They implemented vfork on CMS Opem, but fraudlently named it "fork".
>Wish I could answer Phil's question and get it out of the way, but I >(still) live more on the VM side, so my knowledge of Java usage in z/OS >land is reduced. > I thought (Alan Altmark said?) IBM long ado dropped Java from VM. >But forget running "in" USS, just having access to that Unix-like >filespace is a big boost. > Expanding my previous citations: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=files-naming> - or - <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_264> > ... >So I spun-up the shell, brought in a tarball of my favorite shell >scripts, and ... what the heck? ... they were all garbled. >I had not considered the OpenVM (nor OpenMVS) would be EBCDIC. (My >scripts were all ASCII, of course.) So I shied away from it for like >seven months. What a waste of time. > ??? I have found that POSIX ASCII shell scripts, translated to EBCDIC (beware the LF<->NL tweak generally work. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
