I can tell you that we got one of the best systems programmers that I have ever seen from R.L. Polk about 30 years ago.
He has since retired. He did a number of amazing things such as front-end SVC 26 to keep a certain tape drive range from being used, SMS before there was such a thing, Mod on IEBCOPY to help with enqueues that IBM didn't attempt to address until PDSEs, wrote his own cpu tester to help verify CPU changes from model to model and how it would impact our shop, disk performance test that would expose companies that would "pre-stage" data to get better performance numbers. Wrote in house scheduling package that used a usercat to store all of the information (lasted for about 12 years). Just a small list of his giant contribution to keeping us running smoothly and efficiently. My entire view of what makes a good systems programmer was shaped by watching him do what he did. My hat is off to Steve Huber. Rob Schramm Fifth Third Bank This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
