Corez/OS18 min
Unix System Services
A full POSIX environment inside z/OS. If you know Linux, most of it is familiar — but the joins between the Unix world and the MVS world are where the interesting problems live.
What you will be able to do
- Move between the shell and the traditional z/OS side
- Understand the file system and where things live
- Handle the two things that always bite: code pages and file tagging
Lessons
- z/OS Unix in one pagez/OS contains a certified Unix. There is a hierarchical file system with directories and permissions, a shell, and the usual commands. It is not an emulator and not a separate…
- Working across the two worldsThe useful skills are the joins: running a shell script from JCL, copying data between datasets and files, and dealing with the fact that one side is EBCDIC and the other is…
- Where modern tooling fitsMost sites are moving mainframe development towards the same tools everyone else uses: source in Git, pipelines that build and deploy, tests that run automatically. Almost all of…
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