On Aug 2, 2005, at 9:22 PM, Don Leahy wrote:
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Putting ISPF aside for a moment, do they know about DFSORT symbols?
How about IF/ENDIF in JCL streams? Or are they still coding and
testing as if this was 1989?
These are not obscure or arcane features, and can be easily mastered
by any user. Yet so many fail to use them.
Don,
While you are somewhat correct I think some context has to be brought
in. While I can't pretend to speak for all programmers there are some
good ones out there and they do use the facilities that you spoke
about. There are some old fuddy duddies out there as well. The mixture
is probably the same as it is in UNIX Land. The pro's and con's for
using specific facilities are IMO a case of what the corporate culture
is. The "BEST" people (in a good corporate culture) are allowed to
fly. They teach others and the "word" is spread.
In some corporate "cultures" anything new is bad. I have seen a few of
those and it is an environment to stay away from.
In some corporate cultures the middle road is take quite often. This
can be either good or bad. A lot depends on management style. This IMO
is a risky but somewhat sane environment.
I can always (almost always) tell what kind of place to work for by
taking a tour of the data center and the sysprogs working space.
Ed
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