Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On 4 February 2012 12:03, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:53:47 +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote: I don't have any kind of problem with mainframes or the way they are. I accept the fact they are different from what I am used to, and at the same time I am interested. It's

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:31:31 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: On 4 February 2012 12:03, Paul Gilmartin wrote: That idea founders on the economics of support. ...  I suspect a single service call to IBM costs, in the aggregate, more than an entire desktop system. Have you priced a support call with

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/6/2012 10:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:31:31 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: On 4 February 2012 12:03, Paul Gilmartin wrote: That idea founders on the economics of support. ... I suspect a single service call to IBM costs, in the aggregate, more than an entire desktop

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 10:57:40 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote: On 2/6/2012 10:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:31:31 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: On 4 February 2012 12:03, Paul Gilmartin wrote: That idea founders on the economics of support. ... I suspect a single service call to

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: On 2/6/2012 10:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:31:31 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: On 4 February 2012 12:03, Paul Gilmartin wrote: That idea founders on the economics of support. ...  I suspect

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Greg Shirey
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 11:41 AM No; my point is that most personal Windows customers can endure the entire life of the product without making such a call; most z/OS customers can't. Most Windows customers can endure booting

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Scott Ford
Tony, It ain't cheap Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 4 February 2012 12:03, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:53:47 +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote: I

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Scott Ford
That's your opinion, nowadays, yes, ten or more years ago, no Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:31:31 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: On 4 February 2012

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Scott Ford
Yep, that I agree with, I am an old dinosaur, but fine the experience we all have is pretty much contained to us older creatures, kids don't want to know Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 6, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:25:09 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: That's your opinion, nowadays, yes, ten or more years ago, no On Feb 6, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: No; my point is that most personal Windows customers can endure the entire life of the product without making such a call;

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Scott Ford
Gil, No worries, My fault, guess I am old school. I make calls no matter what the posts, I am just that kinda of guy who wants to know how things work. Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 6, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Timothy Sipples
Paul Gilmartin writes: Exactly; I mean per installation. The putative personal z/OS makes each customer a systems programmer. You can run a Linux/OS X/Windows system without a systems programmer; not likely z/OS. (But note that when IBM makes steps in that direction, many contributors to this

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:53:47 +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote: I don't have any kind of problem with mainframes or the way they are. I accept the fact they are different from what I am used to, and at the same time I am interested. It's just I don't want to put all my time in them. With some amount of

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-04 Thread Mike Schwab
Umph. Not quite sure why, but this inpired in me an idea. Since cubicles are used in lots of offices. Almost all of them have a computer work station. Installing a computer is tricky. Under the cubicle desktop, a slot for 1 desktop computer or the equvalent thickness of blade servers. On

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-03 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Message From: Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.com.pl To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, February 2, 2012 4:45:30 PM Subject: Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS) On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, McKown, John wrote: FWIW, gcc stands for GNU Compiler Collection. It is owned (copyrighted) by the Free

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 05:31:12 -0800, Lloyd Fuller wrote: There is an older version of GCC that is ported to z/OS on the CBT. As far as I am concerned one of the advantages of GCC is that it is NOT LE so you can use it in places that you cannot use normal z/OS C. And it has a larger library than

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-03 Thread Lloyd Fuller
what I need them to do. Lloyd - Original Message From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, February 3, 2012 10:23:29 AM Subject: Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS) On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 05:31:12 -0800, Lloyd Fuller wrote: There is an older

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In pine.lnx.4.64.1202022034530.30...@tau.ceti.pl, on 02/02/2012 at 10:45 PM, Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.com.pl said: Every time I learn something about MVS or z, I don't do something else. I didn't mean that learning about MVS was a lot of work, but rather that enhancing a large program like

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-03 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In pine.lnx.4.64.1202022034530.30...@tau.ceti.pl, on 02/02/2012 at 10:45 PM, Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.com.pl said: Every time I learn something about MVS or z, I don't do something else. I didn't mean that learning about MVS was a

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-03 Thread Sevetson, Phil
Of Tomasz Rola Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 2:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS) On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In pine.lnx.4.64.1202022034530.30...@tau.ceti.pl, on 02/02/2012 at 10:45 PM, Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.com.pl said

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-03 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Sevetson, Phil wrote: Tomasz, I hear where you're coming from with time is fixed, but in-my-opinion it acts more like an expense stream, and a sunk cost. No matter what you're doing with it, it's going by. Ehem :-). I am not sure if I read you well. I guess this is a

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, McKown, John wrote: FWIW, gcc stands for GNU Compiler Collection. It is owned (copyrighted) by the Free Software Foundation. It is licensed under the GPL and the source code is freely available. There is a port for the z series, but hosted on z/Linux, not z/OS and

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-02 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012, Tomasz Rola wrote: Yeah, I started to wonder myself, so I downloaded source of gcc-4.6.2, unpacked and started to poke around, semi randomly. So far, I can be sure only about the size of unpacked source, it is above 600 megabytes. I tried Um, nope. I wrote it too fast.