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Status Not under consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories Shell & Utilities
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 27, 2024

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Upstream all z/OS USS ported commands (i.e. cp, grep)

z/OS is distributed with many UNIX commands, such as cp and grep. These commands, in many cases, have not evolved from when they were originally ported while the open-source version has evolved with additional capabilities and features. The z/OS commands do have the advantage of support for z/OS datasets and the z/OS UNIX environment.


It is being proposed that these ports be released as open-source and the z/OS distinctives be upstreamed to the open-source project which would then allow for a single code base and giving the z/OS UNIX infrastructure a ported command that mirrors the open-source commands - something that currently frustrates z/OS UNIX users greatly.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 12, 2024
    As far as I know, there isn't such a plan. So it's not going to happen within a short time.
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 28, 2024

    I think that open sourcing (is that even a verb?) anything that is endemic to the z/OS base or major subsystems is an interesting idea. However, I'm not sure how this works in the Unix or Linux world...what is distributed with the "base OS" vs. how do people obtain/install/run the open source versions of these utilities? It would be my contention that the model should be the same for z/OS as Unix and Linux.

    As an additional thought, you seem to be making the point that the separate z/OS versions of these commands might get updated when the Unix/Linux OSS versions get updated. Wouldn't that argue for having a single code base for all platforms (with appropriate conditional compilation logic) and not a separate z/OS project?

    Scott Fagen
    Mainframe Evangelist
    CDW

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