You may not need to port R to z/OS. You can run R or SAS (or WPS) programs in a z/OS hybrid batch job step, using the Co:Z Launcher.
The R or SAS processing is offloaded to a Unix/Linux appliance (like a zBX blade or zLinux guest), but your data and output can be on z/OS. Jobs are still scheduled and controlled by z/OS, but significant hardware and software savings can be realized using a hybrid model. Here's example JCL for running "R" from z/OS batch: // EXEC PROC=COZPROC,ARGS='[email protected]' //LIFEEXP DD DISP=SHR,DSN=KIRK.LIFEEXP.DATA //STDIN DD * # This shell script runs on the target Linux server, # and executes the R statistical system with an inline program. # # This example is a 2-dimensional multiple regression R --no-save <<EOB mypipe = pipe("fromdsn DD:LIFEEXP", open="r") life = read.table(mypipe, header=TRUE) close(mypipe) multilinearFit = lm(LifeExp~PeoplePerTV+PeoplePerDoctor,data=life) summary(multilinearFit) EOB // For more details on this, see our webinar archives for the session "Using the Co:Z Launcher to Enable zEnterprise Distributed Workloads", which can be found at http://dovetail.com/webinars Co:Z is free to use, enterprise license and support agreements are also available. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> We're working on a white paper (maybe a webinar) on running SAS / WPS in a similar way. Send me a note offline if you would like to review a preliminary draft. On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 3:14 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > No worries. Bear in mind that WPS have a aggressive business strategy to > undercut SAS on the price point, which is always welcome for customers. > AFAIK, WPC are ex-IBMers from Hursley who saw a opportunity to deliver a > competitive product at a much lower price. From what I can tell it's a > C/C++ application which should port well to zLinux. > > FWIW, I tried to port R to z/OS but bailed when it required a Fortran > compiler. Has Fortran been ported to zLinux or is that a moot point due > to the > the loosely coupled front-end - backend (optimizer) architecture of the > GCC compiler tool chain? > > > On 30/03/2012 11:16 PM, Aria Bamdad wrote: > >> Thanks for this link. I was not aware of WPS. We will seriously take a >> look at this product. >> >> Although R is an excellent alternative as David Boyes suggested, it is so >> only from a statistical analysis point of view. When it comes to data >> management and manipulation, it is not really a good alternative to SAS. >> Perhaps the availability of WPS for Linux on System z will be a motivation >> for SAS to provide the same offering. >> >> Aria >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Linux on 390 Port >> [mailto:[email protected].**EDU<[email protected]>] >> On Behalf Of David >> Crayford >> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:19 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: SAS >> >> On 30/03/2012 4:44 AM, Neale Ferguson wrote: >> >>> Just curious - is there such thing SAS under Linux on z? My reading shows >>> only x86, x86_64 and Itanium as options. >>> >> WPC have a SAS clone (WPS) that runs on zLinuz. WPS is very well >> regarded - in fact, MXG creator Barry Merrill endorses it. >> >> http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/**products/wps/platforms/zlinux<http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps/platforms/zlinux> >> >> Neale >>> >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >>> ---------- >>> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >>> >> visit >> >>> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/**wlvindex?LINUX-390<http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390> >>> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >>> ---------- >>> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >>> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >>> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ---------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/**wlvindex?LINUX-390<http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ---------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ---------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/**wlvindex?LINUX-390<http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390> >> ------------------------------**------------------------------** >> ---------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/**wlvindex?LINUX-390<http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390> > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
