No. You're not imagining it at all. When MQ first came out, that was my thought from the beginning.
Fred -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What's a programming language --------------------------<snip>---------------------------- Ed Gould wrote: > On Oct 10, 2006, at 2:36 PM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > >> For me JCL isn't really so bad. Personally, IMHO, etc, etc, I >> really do like working with something that has been evolved and >> gotten better over the past 40 or so years. You can still easily >> see the history in all of it. I love the fact that they say you can >> run the first 360 program on today's biggest and baddest zSeries box. > > > except for ISAM... but then who cares:) > > Ed ---------------------<unsnip>---------------------------- I don't think anyone misses ISAM any more than they miss QTAM. My biggest fear is that BSAM, QSAM, BPAM and BDAM will follow. Have any of you old-timers notices that MQM's store-and-forward seems a lot like the old TCAM queueing and forwarding capaility? Or am I just imagining 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
