And it gives Ed something to complain about - along with COBOL messages, LE, STEPCAT/JOBCAT, no more SEs, office politics, GUIDE, SHARE, IBM education offerings, yada, yada, yada.
Don Imbriale >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Ed Gould >Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:37 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS) > >On Apr 11, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: > >> Ed, >> >> Why do you keep saying TSO is dead. IBM hasn't announced any >> replacement. Most programmers, sysprogs, and operators use TSO every >> day in their work. If TSO is dead, what's going to replace it? >> > >Eric, > >This has been discussed here on the list (mostly by me) for a while. >The group seems to think moribund might be a better term though. > >There has been nothing official by IBM, BTW. > >The gist of it seems to be TSO has so many obscure control blocks and >apparently is not well documented as to who read/writes to which >control blocks IBM has given up trying to write new code or fix old >code. There are some exceptions of course but look at it this way >since REXX came out (10+ years ago) there has been no large TSO >products released. IBM indicated at GUIDE quite some time ago that no >large scale TSO development is happening. We had requested a >replacement or at least a better TSO. > >There have been small items but nothing large. So instead of dead >maybe moribund is better, you make up your own mind. *********************************************************************** Bear Stearns is not responsible for any recommendation, solicitation, offer or agreement or any information about any transaction, customer account or account activity contained in this communication. *********************************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
