Pat,
I have enjoyed your posts over the years and am sorry to see you go. Good luck!
Clifford McNeill
> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:58:17 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: OT - End of a personal era
> To: [email protected]
>
> On Sept 25 my current employment ends, and since I'm not planning to
> look for another job, about 37 years of a system programming career
> ends with it. Although the last 20 of those years have been more
> support / administration / configuration of MVS communication-related
> software than any real system programming I still claim the title, and
> IBM-Main has helped my maintain that fiction. I discovered IBM-Main
> pretty late in my career (10-12 years ago maybe?) but since then it has
> been a constant source of both information and entertainment.
>
> IBM-Main is unusual among the online technical discussion venues in
> that it has a real sense of community. While this has resulted in many
> non-technical threads that have given Darren heartburn it also has
> added context to postings, making otherwise obscure comments
> understandable. I'd hate to think of that ever changing.
>
> I've decided I'll drop off the list in a week or 2 rather than hear more
> about all the neat new features of software and hardware that I will
> never see. (I'm already feeling obsolete by being stuck on z/OS 1.8
> while others talk about 1.10, etc.) Should I forget this decision and
> start posting again feel free to remind me I have nothing useful to
> add. :-)
>
> Exception: I will probably hop back on the list late Feb to find
> out who's going to be at SHARE in Seattle. During SHARE I'll probably
> be wandering the halls - sans badge - snubbing people.
>
> Thanks and good-bye.
>
> Pat O'Keefe
>
>
> P.S. A slightly early "Another one bites the dust".
> By the end of this year all mainframe processing of the former
> Washington Mutual Bank will have been transferred to JPMorgan
> Chase or eliminated. What a year ago was one of the largest MVS
> shops in the Pacific Northwest will power off its processors and cease
> to exist. I'm glad I won't be there to see that final Z EOD.
>
>
>
>
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