On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:53:33 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote:
>Is it me, or is there a misinterpretation? > >Normal code is: > >Allocate. >Open. >Read. >Process. >Write. >Close. >De-allocate. > >Aside from process, how much is written by users? > >And, yes those other processes are driven by user code, but again, who wrote it? > >So, if I have a PROCESS written by the user, does it make a difference in what language it was written in? > >Most of the work is done by z/OS on the user's behalf. This makes a little more sense than the way it came across before. But the answer is still a big YES. You're overgeneralizing. COBOL vs. HLASM? Maintainability probably is a bigger factor than a small gain. But would you want to write that PROCESS part in SAS? In Java? In (un-compiled) Easytrieve? (yes, I know lots of shops with production Easytrieve and similar HLLs, but I also have been at shops where they didn't allow it at all in production) Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
