Edward E Jaffe wrote: > Wayne Driscoll wrote: > > Ok, time for me to spend some time on the soap box. << > > This reminds me of a Chris Craddock pet peeve -- the kind you cannot > escape hearing given enough time and beer -- about modern mainframes and > their operating systems having unique and spectacular capabilities that > their users just obstinately refuse to exploit!
Hey I resemble that! And it doesn't take much beer for me to get on the pet peeve bandwagon these days. It is probably worth a whole new thread to ask the rest of the assembled ibm-main throng their opinions on why so little of the core functionality ever gets used in practice. That functionality is, after all, what differentiates the IBM mainframe from everything else. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
