> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2007 6:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Just another example of mainframe costs. > >
<snip> > > 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. I don't want to change how JCL works. I want to totally eliminate JCL. It stinks. I'd prefer some sort of "scripting" language, such as REXX (or Perl or Python or ...). The main plus of JCL is its very inflexibility. Why is that a plus? Because it makes something like CA-11 possible. I remember restarting jobs before CA-11. What is needed is something similar that would work with an advanced "batch control language". <snip> > Charles -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
