Hi all While I may change my mind in the future, I've pretty much decided to abandon the project for now, for these reasons: 1. Mongo DB data is UTF-8 and not even ASCII. An EBCDIC version is thus irrelevant and not needed. This is different then the situation with the PCRE library where EBCDIC version is possible and useful in EBCDIC environment, and thus relevant. 2. Once the need for EBCDIC is ruled out, there is no real need for "classic" z/OS version. The C modules of the C driver could easily be compiled under USS and the only piece that might be needed is some COBOL copybooks and code to interface with the dll, resolve big and little endian conflicts and so on. This is a fairly easy task to do, but I sense that there is no specific need for it. As I've said, I may go back and do it some time in the future. 3. The most important obstacle is the fact that there is no descent development environment that could be reasonably and legally available to open source developers. This, combined with the hostility towards C in "classic" z/OS shops, curtails the ability of many potential users to actually build from source code and the ability of the project to distribute binaries.
I will concentrate my open source efforts elsewhere ZA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
