ZIP is a poignant case. There exists a version of Info-ZIP for z. However, our copy circa 2000 identifies the maintainer as one Onno van der Linden. The Info-ZIP web site lists him as a ghost: once involved with the project but without current contact data. So what shop would want to become dependent on a now-13 year old product with, as they say, no visible means of support?
In another case, our shop has standardized on SFTP for secure transfers. A few years ago we found an open-source version that worked and appeared to have current support. But the Apps folks would not hear of it. They insisted that we buy an ISV version. Don't know the details (and would not reveal anyway), but we found the commercial version pretty sucky. We had to debug it and induce the vendor to make changes. They obviously had--at that time--little serious mainframe experience or the means to test their product thoroughly. I'm not sure what moral these cases embody, but they illustrate the difficulty of taking a real business in an off-the-grid direction. . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Richard Pinion <rpin...@netscape.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 10/03/2013 08:35 AM Subject: Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities? Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> I would like to see a free/near free zip program for traditional z/OS data sets. The zip/unzip would do consistency checking, unlike TRSMAIN UNTERSE which will happily unterse a truncated file and give a RC=0. --- david.griffi...@gmail.com wrote: From: David Griffiths <david.griffi...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities? Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 16:15:27 +0100 On 3 October 2013 15:59, Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com> wrote: > I have several downloads I use from the CBT Tape. But I do not incorporate them into a production - if this dies the system dies - process. If the tool I have from the CBT TAPE dies, it does not impact anything but my statistics or analysis functions. Do you think that - along the lines of the CBT Tape - that there is much of a potential market for non-production-critical tools? For instance a company buying a $99 copy of Python for their log processing needs? Cheers, Dave ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
