On Oct 10, 2006, at 8:19 PM, McKown, John wrote:
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Subject: Re: What's a programming language
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
But you can still run ISAM programs, just against a VSAM file. Or is
that facility gone now?
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Well they took ISAM new allocations out of JCL (IIRC). Somewhere
along the line I thought I heard that the ISAM/VSAM interface is gone
as well. I could be wrong on this part though.
Ed
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