On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 17:29:22 -0700, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >In a recent note, Charles Mills said: > >> If you work for an end-user company, then you have some influence on, for >> example, the ease-of-use of your systems. I often hear on this list a >> defense of obscurity: "why would you want to change how JCL works -- it was >> good enough in 1968, it's good enough now." That is not a productive >> attitude. Face it, the mainframe is in many ways user-hostile. We are the >> people who invented the cult of the unapproachable IT guru: "authorized >> personnel only." Changing those attitudes would be a good step. >> >You appear to be advocating that readers of this list assimilate >that which they loathe. Yes, that is how a living organism's defense mechanism works: assimilate the genetic code that tried to kill it, use the information to evolve into a stronger (hybrid) organism. That is what IBM has been doing with its iSeries and pSeries and (I surely hope) it is doing that with zSeries, too.
We, on this list, need to be doing the same. Most good sysprogs that I've known were life-learners and absorbed lessons like that on a constant basis. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
