I have access to a small z/OS system. We are checking with IBM to see if our license allows us to do this type of workload. If so, please contact me offline.
On February 20, 2014 12:27:10 PM PST, Karl Nordstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >How much time does it take to "smoke test" Perl? > >On 02/20/2014 01:31 PM, John Goodyear wrote: >> >> My apologies for falling off with the Perl build testing with Karl. >> I cannot promise that I could continue the work that Karl and I >> were doing last year. >> >> >> I think it was towards the end of 2012 that I tried to hook the >> community up with an environment in which a couple of people could >> use to build perl on z/OS. At that time, nobody wanted to own the >> responsibilities of performing the builds. If that has changed, >> let me know, and I can contact the resource to see if the offer is >> still on the table. >> >> >> Regards, >> >> John Goodyear >> >> >> Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> wrote on 02/18/2014 >> 06:18:51 PM: >> >>> From: Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> To: >>> [email protected], Date: 02/18/2014 06:19 PM Subject: Re: EBCDIC >>> support is on the chopping block >>> >>> * Ricardo Signes <[email protected]> >>> [2013-02-06T18:31:17] >>>> [ This message was also sent to perl-mvs ] >>>> >>>> As was brought up about 18 months ago... >>>> >>>> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.mvs/2011/09/msg1545.html >>>> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.mvs/2012/01/msg1598.html >>> >>> Now it's been another twelve months. >>> >>>> ...support for z/OS, specifically EBCDIC support, is on the >>>> chopping >> block. >>>> So far, no dedicated resources, human or otherwise, have been >>>> provided. >>> >>> We've been talking about dropping EBCDIC unless we get a >>> dedicated resource for smoking perl for two and a half years, >>> initially saying that we were >> going to >>> drop it after 5.18.0. Despite the great efforts by Karl to make >>> thecore >> tests >>> pass, we seem to have no dedicated EBCDIC testing, nor any >>> prospect of >> having >>> it. >>> >>> I think this has been long enough. We've gone past my threatened >>> dates a number of times. Unless I've missed some existing >>> promise of testing >> that >>> simply hasn't been turned on, but is ready to run on a regular >>> schedule >> with a >>> machine that won't go away without warning, I think it's time to >>> consider >> the >>> plug pullable in 5.21.early. >>> >>> -- rjbs [attachment "signature.asc" deleted by John >>> Goodyear/Gaithersburg/IBM] > >- -- >Karl Nordstrom >Storage Systems Group >Information Technology Services >The Pennsylvania State University >(814) 863-1936 >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > >iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTBmUeAAoJEJ6ApJRfJdbfKr0H/1hIbh+AWfxRDS5Dsr+R28S6 >uN7JW8Gu4Xhra7W12ECndld5PZglnWqGfMptLkCTpJRq4kOmPX2nvBWVpkIfzOq6 >ZYs5k+Ect/cFe69eRgFxFoAsCxotAORIyG7BlGMFg/JIbylSStBVPynfCtpUvUO/ >SrEQYUnUBMC1qI+Rjz9N0lXy2t/gcpjP6bxfSwUHblYPol/aCALvca0sUIE/i6+B >2VG2YallRimqhkVBmiJD47l/q1SrODVUcpfQ7jQpGhKFPiFU8aRz2PDiAcpK8MCE >R55OyQ6TyIoXYONt8HkzrzhNY7oeFIw5lNVDHkfFGBeoPXvxt1tFB9a2lFOSuzM= >=FlyD >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
