On 09/29/16 11:16, Jack J. Woehr replied to John McKown:
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.
It's almost like that already. Maybe the next marketing ploy will be
to rebrand the system zOSnix
I'm seeing increased use of BASH in USS.
BASH has the ability to add commands as loadable modules. The value of
that (compared to an external command) is that they run in the same
address space, so they can affect the state of the shell.
Years ago, I did some language bindings for a product: Perl, Tcl,
Regina, CMS REXX, ... and BASH. Whatever TSO APIs cannot be driven via
'tsocmd' could perhaps be integrated as a BASH loadable module.
Just kinda thinkin out loud.
-- R; <><
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