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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
