Oh, you're right. I was thinking "instead of" and not "in addition to". My bad.
-- 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 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2011 1:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: assembler help! > > On 8/4/2011 11:27 AM, McKown, John wrote: > > NO!!!! Why? Because we're too cheap to license the C > compiler. We do have HLASM. Now, if they want to make the > C/C++ come for free, I'd jump for joy. We had a license at > one time. But a manager who was struggling to save his job > decided that eliminating all "non-critical" software was the > way to go. So the C license went. Followed shortly thereafter > by the manager. > > Sorry, John. Your answer makes no sense. You must have > misunderstood my question. > > I wasn't asking if IBM should remove support for HLASM exits > and replace them > with METAL C exits. I simply asked if it would be better if > IBM provided sample > exits in METAL C. > > The original poster seems to have a poor grasp of HLASM > basics and I was > wondering if she (and people like her) could be better served > if sample exits > were provided in METAL C. > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > 310-338-0400 x318 > [email protected] > http://www.phoenixsoftware.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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
