What about BPXWDYN from COBOL?

I know this is being done. 

And I know of another using BPXWDY2 that will be production in the near future 
(alias entry to BPXWDYN). 

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> On Apr 13, 2020, at 11:22 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:48 AM Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Do you mean -
>> 
>> - using z/OS Unix syscalls?
>> 
> 
> Yes. Such as a COBOL program doing a CALL to BPX1SLP to "sleep" for a
> while. No, I don't know why they would use that example, I just chose it.
> 
> 
> 
>> - using the z/OS Unix file system?
>> 
> 
> Yes to all. Saving & reading data in UNIX files vs legacy datasets.
> Excluding "temporary" data going in fro "somewhere and then copied to a
> legacy DSN for actual use. As an example uses PATH= in Production JCL. for
> application generated and processed data.
> 
> 
> 
>> - using the z/OS Unix shell?
>> 
> 
> Yes, such as using awk to read a report data set (cp -T "//'some.dsn'"
> /dev/fd1 | awk ... | cp -T /dev/fd0 "//'another.dsn'""
> 
> 
> 
>> 
>> FWIW - I contend that there is no such thing as "running under Unix" on
>> z/OS.  All please discuss :-)
>> 
>> 
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