> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 2:33 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: On sort options orignally: zfs question root growth > > On 2016-02-19 15:08, Gibney, David Allen,Jr wrote: > >> > >> EBCDIC is a pain. It should have been ASCII. Or IBM should finish > >> implementation of Enhanced ASCII support. > > > > Can you really imagine the level of acceptance (NOT) that would have > > received 2.5 decades ago :) > > > I imagine that those clamoring for POSIX conformance had such a background > that they were familiar with ASCII, comfortable with it, and would have > welcomed it.
I'm not referring to those clamoring for POSIX. I'm referring to the rest of us. Personally, I wander over into the Unix side when I need to and am getting more and more comfortable. But, it took a while and I wouldn't be there now if z/OS hadn't worked to actively remove the initial "walled off" feel. I embrace it today because of RECEIVE FROMNETWORK and FROMNTS. > > Although there's room to suspect a second agenda. Those ostensibly clamoring > for POSIX were covertly trying to build a Trumpwall to keep the mainframe out > of > their shops. ASCII wouldn't have affected that agenda. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
