On 11/08/2016 8:02 AM, John McKown wrote:
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:44 PM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote:
Looks like Rockets R port is using Enhanced ASCII
http://forum.rocketsoftware.com/t/r-the-language-for-statist
ical-computing-is-now-on-z-os/297.
I have a friend, ex co-worker, who now works for Rocket. Sounds like a
great place to work. Other than the "good will", I don't know why they are
doing these ports, but I'm very grateful for it.
Of course we're all pleased that Rocket are porting good stuff to z/OS
but it's not all about altruism. IBM have partnered with Rocket for the
z/OS port of Apache Spark. For Spark on z/OS to be credible you need at
least Python and almost certainly R for SparkR. For Spark to fly (groan)
on z/OS you really do need Rockets data virtualization product to access
legacy data. That's good
news for Rocket. Rocket aren't charging OTC for the Spark DVS, only S&S.
That sure is a change in business model for a mainframe software vendor.
I really like R, the
little I know of it. If they're listening, a full port of GNU awk would be
fantastic (especially with the networking stuff). Also the Google "Go"
language (may be even more difficult since it specifically says that it
only supports UNICODE)
On 10/08/2016 11:32 PM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
Gil,
You think that Enhanced ASCII support in z/OS is crap? I've never heard
that before :-)
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:
On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 08:16:50 -0500, Jerry Callen <[email protected]>
wrote:
[Prompted by mentions of git on another thread]
Rocket is in the process of porting git to z/OS (on USS, of course). As
others have noted, it's challenging, given the ASCII/EBCDIC issues. ...
http://forum.rocketsoftware.com/c/rocket-z-os-open-source-la
nguages-tools
https://github.com/zorts/pause_release
What would be the obstacles to building it in Enhanced ASCII mode? I
know
there are many; I've never succeed with anything significantly larger
than
"Hello, World" in Enhanced ASCII.
-- gil
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