> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould
>
> On Jun 22, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Thomas Berg wrote:
>
> > ====== Ed Gould ====== wrote 2007-06-21 21:58:
> >> On Jun 21, 2007, at 4:44 AM, Thomas Berg wrote:
> >> --------------SNIP----------
> >>>
> >>>> The consultants
> >>>> howled as
> >>>> they could no longer assemble programs (no access to sys1.maclib)
> >>>
> >>> ???
> >>>
> >> Our official language was COBOL nothing else was permitted into
> >> production. The consultants had a habit of doing the other work on
> >> our system, those contained assembler.
> >> Ed
> >
> > Still don't understand why they wasn't allowed to assemble their
> > programs.
> > Were they doing "private" programming or what ?
> >
> > Thomas Berg
> -----------SNIP------------
>
> The standard company wide language was COBOL. None of the
> programmers knew assembler. As I explained in a previous post
> none of the programmers could debug assembler code.
>
> The consultants were using our resources to compile programs
> for the consultants essentially stealing resources from our
> company. The two steps we made to stop the process was taking
> away access to sys1.maclib and also not allowing assembler to
> be invoked.
Oh.... Sort of like, "None of the folks knew how to use a lawn mower,
so they banned lawns." Must have been a gummint shop.....
-jc-
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