I'm in the initial stage of porting my TSO/CMS program (KICKS, see kicksfortso.com) to linux, including zlinux. KICKS is mostly GCC code, though not open source. Several people have recommended I post to this list for some of my questions. So I've subscribed, and looked at some past posts, and am ready to see if you can help me! (1) first, does my quest seem appropriate for this list? and if so, my first question: (2) TSO & CMS provide a separation between the name of a file internally (ddname) and the external name of the file (dsname), with some kind of control card (DD, ALLOC, FILEDEF, etc) to be provided at run time to connect the two. I'm considering ways to do this in a linux environment and am presently thinking about using environment statements. So for example if there was a user file MYFILE in the KICKS fct, it would be matched to an external file /home/myuser/myfile.vsam by an environment statement like MYFILE=/home/myuser/myfile.vsam KICKS will always be started from some kind of shell script and these environment defines, as part of that script, seem (to me) a natural analog to the ALLOC's and FILEDEF's used in current tso and cms clists and execs. Here's the question: Is this the most natural unix/linux way to connect such internal and external names?
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