On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 14:45 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll <wdri...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe > > backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of > > non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an "open-systems" > > background show a willingness to learn anything about the mainframe. > > I completely agree with this statement. It is typically a requirement > of mainframe types to understand open system terminology and then > speak of mainframe using open systems language. sysplex vs. cluster > is a typical rough and ready analogy. > > I've yet to see an open system person have even a vague understanding > of record oriented I/O or PDS processing. > > The list goes on and on.
PDS is a weird beastie. IMO, the closest analogy would be a directory with very restricted file names. Record I/O might be possible if they use a "looping" language like C or Perl to process each row in an SQL result set. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
