21 Apr
2002
21 Apr
'02
5:26 p.m.
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Derek Peschel wrote:
I assume you use equivalent programs, but what are they? Presumably
XEDIT would be high on the list, and one of IBM's print formatters.
And you probably have a nice implementation of SQL. Is there a
replacement for gimp or xv?
I definitely use XEDIT all the time. DB2 is the best database
implementation on mainframes, although it doesn't necessarily have to do
with SQL (and often doesn't). I don't do image processing. Period.
Mainframes almost never do graphics, so something like xv is not something
I would be doing with an S/390. I don't use a shell. I use JCL to set up
batch processing jobs. For text processing, I use Bookmaster. It will be
a cold day in hell before I let any perl code on any of my mainframes. A
lot of stuff I use on the mainframe doesn't have any equivalent in the
UNIX world.
Peace... Sridhar
How can anyone do anything useful with a computer
without the
following? Emacs, TeX/LaTeX, dvips, the Bourne shell for scripts,
ghostview, gimp, xv, PostgreSQL or Oracle, Perl, C, various useful
UNIX utilities (e.g. tar, awk, nawk, grep, sed, dc, ed, diff, cal, at,
bc, od, lint, etc.), to name a very few of the extremely useful
programs that run on UNIX systems.
You'd be surprised at the variety of work I can do on an S/390 with *none*
of these. Just because they are useful, doesn't mean that's all there is.