i370 port - constructing compile script

[Toon Moene]

David Edelsohn wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> But from the Unix system, I need to be able to generate the
>>>> above very simple compile script, which is a precursor to creating
>>>> very simple JCL steps (trust me, you don't want to see what
>>>> ST2CMP looks like).  Note that the JCL has the filenames
>>>> truncated to 8 characters, listed twice, uppercased, and '-'
>>>> and '_' converted to '@'.

> Paul,
> 
> Why are you not making use of z/OS Unis System Services?  GNU Make and
> other GNU tools are available and already built for z/OS.

Perhaps because he is a hacker in the good ol' sense of the word ?

Mjam, MVS, JCL, the possibility of COBOL, perhaps even PL/1 ...

[ Over a quarter of century ago I worked at the computer center
   of the Dutch Postal Service. One of my colleagues managed the
   IBM system group.  He had an assistant to write the JCL jobs he needed
   for him. ]

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