On 2014-10-06 06:59, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
> Cross-Posted to IBM-MAIN and MVS-OE
>
> People at our installation have got used to use BASH. I think it would be
> about time BASH becomes an integral part of z/OS UNIX Sevices. I have opened
> a requirement for this.
>
> Title: Provide officially supported version of BASH shell for z/OS UNIX
>
> Link:
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=60048
>
Since I have not become a bash partisan, there are several
things common on other UNIXen to which I'd give a higher priority:
o SSL
o find -i
o find -l
o find -follow # but breaking symlink cycles.
o find -print0
o xargs -0
o less
o xterm
o Warning and continuing rather than termination by various utilities,
particularly diff, encountering a binary file when text is expected
o diff -u
o patch compatibility with diff -u
o Further enhancing the Enhanced ASCII support so FOSS software
could be built without accommodations for EBCDIC
And, not an enhancement, but a bug which IBM support has inexplicably
declared WAD: Fix the EN_US collating sequence!
On 2014-10-06 07:40, Bob Shannon wrote:
>
> Just my opinion, but since BASH is a port of open source software, I don't
> think it can ever be incorporated into USS.
>
It's Product Differentiation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_differentiation
... IBM takes pride in providing only features that can't be got
free from other sources.
-- gil
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