On Tue, 5 May 2020 13:12:44 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > >"deploy" ? > "employ"?
>ISTR that this is your favorite example of using DD's in the shell :-) > >cat //DD:MYDD > o FSVO "favorite". See Appendix K of the Command Ref. It's not supported; it may work by happenstance; if it breaks you get to keep both parts. o If it happens to work it's because of "cat" and not "sh". I'd expect it to behave alike under "bash". >On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:17 AM Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 May 2020 08:56:59 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: >> >> >FWIW, I would love to use bash exclusively on z/OS, but without >> >_BPX_SHAREAS support: >> > >> >- there are things that you just can't do, like use DDs >> > >> Where does a shell employ DDs? >> >> >- the overhead for forking new address spaces is significant for many >> >tasks. >> > >> That seems to be an argument for retaining _BPX_SHAREAS support. >> And for a shell's using spawn() where possible rather than fork(). -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
