Rocket does not charge for their ported tools, just like IBM did not for
some of them. They just ask for some marketing information.
Unfortunately, my PWD contacts haven't even acknowledged my email asking
them about any license conflicts regarding our zPDT and running smoke tests.
Time to go tap them on the shoulder.
On 2014-04-03 11:02, [email protected] wrote:
Well, unfortunately that will most likely me the end of ported tools for
here and several other places.
we're not going to pay for support from a 3rd party when we had it under
our IBM ELA so not only will we loose perl but all the others as well
Guess I better refresh myself on REXX
Sandra
From: [email protected]
To: Perl5 Porters <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Date: 04/03/2014 01:14 PM
Subject: Fwd: Perl for z/OS
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Hi,
I contacted IBM about compiling new releases of Perl. This is the
response I received.
Karl
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Subject: Perl for z/OS
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:36:33 -0400
From: Henry Gorbsky <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
CC: Amit Parasar <[email protected]>
Hi Karl,
Thank you for your comment on the IBM Perl for z/OS product.
Unfortunately, this product will be End of Marketing as of 4/30/14.
Rocket Software, our business parter, will continue to provide these
tools (including Perl for z/OS) after April 30. Here is their website:
http://www.rocketsoftware.com/rocket-ported-tools-zos
Unfortunately, it appears that they are still providing Perl at the
5.8.7 level. You may want to check back with them in the future in case
they decide to support a higher release.
*regards*
Hank D. Gorbsky
Internet e-mail: [email protected]
- From www.rocketsoftware.com/rocket-ported-tools-zos
"Perl is a port of the Perl (version 5.8.7) scripting language to the
z/OS UNIX System Services platform. Perl (Practical Extraction and
Report Language) is a very popular general-purpose programming
language that is widely used on UNIX and other computing platforms.
This port of Perl to the z/OS platform offers enhancements over other
versions of Perl, in that it is preconfigured and precompiled,
designed to address the ASCII/EBCDIC conversion, and provide Unicode
support."
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