I am trashing all of my current miniconda efforts and hoping the old ways still work.
Too much 'assumed' lnowledge from the Linux world (bash shell for example) is not in my 30 year z/OS history.  I can stumble around basic commands and super simple scripts, but this miniconda thing is a monster.   I did manage to get miniconda under my $HOME directory and it can query the public channel web site.

Creating local environments and attempting to install actual open source (like Perl) failes spectacularly.

what the heck is a .so file and why didn't it create them when I defined a new environment?  ../.ffi/*.so files not available or found.
How do you select where to install the open source.  At the end of the day what would end up in my General User $PATH variable.

I was trying to update my Open software (last done in 2015).   But this way is just not going to cut it.    
It all looks simple in the pdf downloaded instructions until it cheaps out with a web link to a conda website for how to learn and how to use it.
Long time Linux Apps developers would probably be able to do more, but a z/OS systems programmer does not have that same developer background.
Long time Linux systems support people are probably laughing at me now, but I will survive.

Going to slash and burn this monstrosity from my filesystems.   Hopefully, I will not have to go through therapy to recover.
I do not have the time or inclination to learn all the ins and outs of miniconda for use on z/OS 2.4

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Tom Longfellow
Senior Systems Programmer
Maryland Judicial Information Systems (JIS)
Annapolis MD United States
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