In this case I'd also advise serious use of Naviquest. The drawback for you, given what I understand about the scarcity of MSU at your site, is that Naviquest is a long of running ISPF in batch. My experience with it concluded it was very CPU intensive. It also took a while to come up to speed and use it effectively.
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 5:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ACS routine coding philosophy > > Many thanks to all. In my normal programming, I do use the structured forms > (SELECT/WHEN/OTHERWISE). For some reason, I just thought that ACS > routines might be easier for some of the other sysprogs to understand with > what I thought would be "simpler" logic. I really need to totally re-engineer > the code instead of a simple rewrite. It is a mess. It was written mainly by a > consultant back when we first went to SMS, many years ago. It was then > updated by a storage administrator whose programming techniques are > "interesting". And let's not even consider what our FILTLISTs look like. I guess > what I'm going to do is to study the current ACS routines. From that, > document what they do, using English. Then take my documentation and > code the routine again from scratch. Basically all that I'll copy will be the > FILTLISTs. Of course, this is basically useless work due to management's big > push to go to a 110% MS-only shop. It will be a "learning experience" for me. > Hopefully I'll either s! > urvive here long enough to die a natural death, or maybe IBM will do > something to make the z once again the premier hardware platform. Me, I'm > learning Android and ARM architecture. ARM is somewhat interesting from > an instruction perspective. Definitely a polar opposite from the z and CISC. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact > the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. > HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by > the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life > Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
