On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > All in all, it appears to me that the developers weren't sincerely > motivated to make Unix System Services work as it should. It's > a half-hearted (is that the right anatomical reference?) implementation.
> This shouldn't be something fundamentally difficult like making > forked processes inherit DDNAMEs; they should just do it. > I hate JCL! Indeed. The tiny improvements in JCL over time make me think that POK is afraid of the code -- never a good situation. Yes, a change that broke production jobs would be Bad, but that's what testing and ESPs are for. JCL is so primitive lo these almost 50 years later: I'm always astonished (and a bit depressed). -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
