I do some work with Hercules, but admittedly it's been a long time since I
touched Linux on z on Herc. Feel free to ask me questions as a first point
of contact, though.
You might want to look at the Yahoo! group hercules-390. There's been some
Linux on z (that's the right name to use, z/Linux is a trademark of a
not-IBM company that has fallen into disuse) discussion in the past couple
of weeks.
Be aware that Linux on z testing will be good for EBCDIC, but does not solve
issues with z/OS UNIX.
Slight detour because of EBCDIC - has Perl been ported to BS2000/OSD?
Cheers,
Ray
On 2013-02-25 09:14, Karl Williamson wrote:
On 02/25/2013 09:36 AM, John Goodyear wrote:
I'm just getting started with my efforts on z/OS.
It's early, but are my efforts enough to allow you to put away the cleaver ?
I'm optimistic that we can get this working; I'm committed to it, and John
looks to be to.
The problem is keeping things in working order. We need on-going periodic
testing to make sure that changes we make don't break EBCDIC. I think at
least monthly, and preferably weekly, testing of blead would be sufficient.
Reini Urban pointed out this link just a couple of days ago:
http://www.hercules-390.org/
a z/OS simulator that runs on, among other things, Linux. If that works
well enough, it might mean an answer to our testing.
If we do get things working, but can't keep things going, I believe we owe
it to the future potential users to package it into some sort of release.
Ricardo Signes wrote:
> Unless there is a heroic effort to both fix and establish regular
smoking for
> perl on z/OS, it and EBCDIC support are on the chopping block. We
should step
> up our announcement of this fact.
> Configure should refuse to build on an EBCDIC platform unless a switch is
> passed like -DACK_EBCDIC_WARNING
John Goodyear
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