I could be wrong, but I don't believe that BPXWDYN actually uses Unix syscalls or would cause the AS to be dubbed. I think that the BPX prefix is a little misleading. Ask on mvs-oe and you might get a definite answer from the developer.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:31 AM Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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). > > Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. > Expct mistaks > > > > 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 :-) > >> > >> > > -- > > People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. > > Maranatha! <>< > > John McKown > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
