Miss you Pat ! Have a wonderful retired life.
Thanks & Best Regards. Umamaheshwar Iyer | Project Manager | Tech Mahindra Hinjwadi, Pune - 411 004, INDIA Ph. Office: +91 20 4225 0801 | Cell: +91 97666 44472 Email: [email protected] www.techmahindra.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT - End of a personal era -----------------------------------------<snip>------------------------- ---------- >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. > > ----------------------------------<unsnip>------------------------------ --- Stay around anyway, Pat. We'll hate to lose those years of experience. But also enjoy your retirement! Going to catch up on the fishing and huntting? That's what I'm doing. :-) Rick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ============================================================================================================================ Disclaimer: This message and the information contained herein is proprietary and confidential and subject to the Tech Mahindra policy statement, you may review the policy at <a href="http://www.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html";>http://www.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html</a> externally and <a href="http://tim.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html";>http://tim.techmahindra.com/Disclaimer.html</a> internally within Tech Mahindra. ============================================================================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
