Hi, I sent this email to Rocket Software in which I expressed my concern that waiting to work on Perl could lead to the Perl developers to drop support for EBCDIC. I asked if they were going to go it on their own. I hope they contribute whatever they compile and debug to the Perl 5 project.
Karl -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: USSP-37: Info Request for Perl Fwd: EBCDIC support is on the chopping block Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 19:50:20 -0400 (EDT) From: KARL NORDSTROM <[email protected]> To: Rocket Software <[email protected]> Hi, I am glad Rocket has taken on IBM's Ported Tools. I am concerned that the Perl developers will not include support for EBCDIC very soon. See attached emails. Has Rocket Software talked to them? Or is Rocket forking/spinning a z/OS version? I have been able to execute Perl from BPXBATCH, but I have not determined how to read a non-hfs file. Please provide example JCL or point me to documentation on this. Thanks, Karl ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Ricardo Signes" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 6:18:51 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 the core 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 ------------------------------------- On 2/26/14, 4:53 PM, "Ray Mullins" <[email protected]> wrote: >What about Rocket Software? They have ported some open-source products, >using the IBM-supplied versions as a starting point. This thread seems to indicate that Kevin Shaw from Rocket has interesting in z/OS and perl: perl on z/OS http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/10/msg209046.html -- David Steinbrunner
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