On 13 October 2017 at 13:09, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> And you can do getenv() and setenv() from a program running the traditional 
> EXEC PGM= way.
>
> An important concept to keep in mind is that the mental model of "there is a 
> legacy MVS over here, and then over
> there in some other compartment is UNIX, and you run in one place or the 
> other" is erroneous.

Yes. IBM's "offering manager" for Swift on z/OS said that "USS is
required", showing perhaps that he's not entirely familiar with the
concept of z/OS UNIX.

> It's all one thing. There is MVS, and it has full UNIX services available to 
> it. There are three or more user interfaces,
> "shells" if you will (in the broadest sense of the term): The USS shell 
> environment, TSO, and JCL. They are all just very
> different user interfaces into more or less the same running environment.

AKA "There is no wall."

Tony H.

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