Now that we've had our Friday afternoon chill out--easy to do in LA where it's cool and drizzly--I want to affirm Brian's observation: we're given a truckload of new function for our trouble. Which is not even much trouble if
1. you have none of the affected exits in use, or 2. you have or can get your hands on enough JES2 expertise to make the conversions on your own Our Exit 4 conversion was accomplished entirely by a sysprog who had never done a lick of JES2 coding *or support* in his long and varied career. He knows assembler language like a native but had to read up on JES2 basics before he could even start work on the exit code. Even with some odd wrinkles and a dearth of crucial documentation, he accomplished the goal during the z/OS 1.7 ESP. In the end, we were able to migrate 1.7--including updated JES2 code--throughout the enterprise by December 2005, a record time frame for us. As far as the low blow of comparing IBM with Microsoft, I'm sure Bill Gates is turning over in his lavish mansion. ;-) . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> 03/30/2006 04:00 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: Over my head in a JES exit Maybe I over-reacted, too. I jumped to the conclusion that IBM was charging for this service. If they're not, I appologise. If they are, my comments still stand. BTW, my comments about MicroSoft still stand. - -teD I?m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! -----Original Message----- From: Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:00:00 To:IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Over my head in a JES exit >In an attempt to help customers where the original JES2 sysprog has moved on to bigger and better things, IBM has decided to provide a service to help customers evaluate their JES2 exits, and determine if the scope of their particular project is small/medium/large/xlarge. >WHY IS THIS A BAD THING? It's bad because IBM has made a major change that you may not understand, but, for a fee, they will help you 'fix' it. This is just another nail in the coffin for the mainframe platform. Microsoft did the same thing when they consolidated all of the packages into Microsoft Office, converted to VBA for macros, and invalidated years of investment in macro coding. They refused to be compatible with old-style macros and offered to help you convert (for a fee). In both cases, I consider this to be a heinous practice. But, nobody remembers (or cares) that Microsoft did it. Changing age-old code and then charging you to help convert is not customer friendly. - -teD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
