On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 < [email protected]> wrote:
> Maybe also output format CSV (which could be either comma- or > tab-separated) for direct input to spreadsheet software. > > If we had GNU awk 4.1+ available in z/OS Unix we would also have the gawk > extension API which could be used to write a C program to invoke IGGCSI00 > which could be invoked directly from an awk script (like the gawk XML > extension). Then we would be in really nice shape. > One can dream . . . > Yes. I would love that. My manager would then kill me. He dislikes z/OS UNIX. It may be due to the fact that we are getting close to retirement and he doesn't really want to be bothered with it. Also, the company is "cloud sourcing" as much of IT as it can (all the infrastructure it can including the z/OS machine, all Intel machines (Windows & Linux), with the z/OS processes being converted to Windows ). This makes it difficult to be very interested in "new" things that we'll never see. He's a very good programmer, an excellent manager, but not a computer geek. He has truly said that he'd prefer to dig ditches, if it just paid as well. I, OTOH, and a computer nerd and have been since college (mucho years ago). > > Peter > > -- Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
