On Thu, 7 May 2020 09:25:55 -0500, Lionel B Dyck wrote: >With z/OS 2.2/2.3/2.4 I have the -X option which supports the use of cp for >load modules (executables) between z/OS and USS and back. I only have the >-I (support to retain executable aliases) on the 2.4 system. > How is that implemented, given that such aliases are utterly alien to UNIX? Do they actually work? The UNIX practice has long been to switch based on argv[0].
>Does anyone know if the -I option has been made available via PTF for 2.2 >and 2.3? > >And - does anyone know if OGET/OPUT will be updated with these options? > It's regrettable that: o cp -r doesn't deal with PDS(E)s. o IEBCOPY doesn't deal with zFS. o pax doesn't deal with PDS(E)s All in all, too many incompatible commands to deal with otherwise similar things. Long ago, on MVS-OE, WJS mused about making the MVS catalog hierarchy a VFS. (He was provoked.) Imagine, even, a filesystem containing program objects, NFS-mounted from a z/OS PDSE. Imagine having a zFS directory in STEPLIB, even as it works in SYSLIB. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
