fwiw, i am trying to get gradle to work on USS. USS is the unix subsytem on the mainframe os z/OS. Where would be a good channel to talk about this?

Do you really want to use USS or s390x on zCX? For the latter, there is an official docker image, you just need a JRE, and for toolchain support you should wait for 8.11 (or use the nightly with a custom fork of the discofox resolver plugin, see https://github.com/gradle/foojay-toolchains/issues/72)

USS is preferred. s390x is linux on z, if I understand correctly. A docker image is interesting though. I have not tried that on uss yet. Thanks for your reply. I'll look into this to understand more. With that said, is this the appropriate channel to talk about such endeavors?

Don’t know if there is any special channel. I just tried the USS version too and run into the same FileLockCommunicator error with the local socket too. But generally, at work I use the Docker image than trying to figure it out on USS.

Well thank you Philip for trying. FWIW, I am going to try a bit more with it, but it will be on a lower priority for the moment.