Hello,

Is there any plans on porting screen or tmux to USS? It's something I miss when working on USS.

Otherwise I saw somewhere that rocket uses gcc to compile (cross-compile?) tools to Z. Is z supported by gcc out of the box, either cross compiling or running in USS?, or is there a fork somewhere, or is it something rocket made in house? I would like to try to compile it myself.

Thanks

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Adam Martin Britt
IT-Architect
BEC
Randers SV Denmark
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Hi Adam,

Rocket uses a special version if GCC we ported to z/OS to essentially cross-compile some open source tools to run on z/OS.  However it should be considered more of a porting tool Rocket uses internally, not a fully functional port of GCC, and we do not provide GCC in executable form outside of Rocket.  We do provide the sources to our modified GCC as required by the license but it would be considerable work for someone to figure out how to build and use it.

At this time we have no plans to port screen or tmux to z/OS.  We do accept new port requests however generally only to meet the needs of our customers on paid support contracts.  If BEC is on paid support, please reach out to me at pfandel@rocketsoftware.com to discuss.

Best regards,
-Peter

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Peter Fandel
Dir. SW Eng
Rocket Internal - All Brands
Waltham MA United States
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Hello,

Is there any plans on porting screen or tmux to USS? It's something I miss when working on USS.

Otherwise I saw somewhere that rocket uses gcc to compile (cross-compile?) tools to Z. Is z supported by gcc out of the box, either cross compiling or running in USS?, or is there a fork somewhere, or is it something rocket made in house? I would like to try to compile it myself.

Thanks

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Adam Martin Britt
IT-Architect
BEC
Randers SV Denmark
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Hi Adam,

i know this post is quite old, but in case you are still looking for tmux, it has been ported to z/OS z/Unix.  I have been using it for the last several weeks and it works very well so far. You can find the repository at this link https://github.com/ZOSOpenTools/tmuxport

regards

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Ronny Funk

Senior IT-Archtect

System Vertrieb Alexander (SVA)

Germany

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Ronald Funk
Senior Mainframe Architect
SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH
Wiesbaden DE
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