On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Tom Marchant < 0000000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Sep 2016 19:23:45 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > > >Is there a generalized remote API to the MVS side of z/OS? > >Or if one wants to remote control MVS does one merely use ssh to the USS > side > > "MVS side" and "USS side" are myths that refuse to die. > > USS is tightly integrated with the rest of MVS, and has been for a long > time. > I completely agree with this. But I think that will be the way that most think of it until using BPXBATCH in JCL the way that we use IKJEFT01 in batch. Or when programmers start using the z/OS UNIX shell via telnet or ssh as a normal part of their way to use z/OS as they now do TSO. Or even when a programmers decides something like "I'll whip up a short awk program to do that." instead of "Hum, time for a short REXX program to do that." What I would like to see is for the ISPF people to "detach" from their love of 3270 TSO to isolate the "terminal control" portion so that you could actually run ISPF as a UNIX application instead of / in addition to a TSO application. Of course, ISPF most likely uses a lot of other TSO API interfaces in addition to the TPUT/TGET/TPG terminal I/O API. Perhaps the ultimate "illegitimate offspring" would be for IBM to come up with a UNIX shell which also has all the TSO APIs integrated into it. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > -- Heisenberg may have been here. Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
