You forgot the smiley face, Steve. (-: I remember once writing an online ISPF/Rexx application that was mostly single user but could have been used by 2 or 3, and I appended change log records to a flat file. That was a bit risky. And once I did something similar to write records to see who was using a particular installation. In the first instance I was young and risky, in the second I was lazy because I new I only wanted a ball park figure and if it dropped a record here and there it wouldn't matter.
Then again, in the first instance long ago I didn't have any Rexx interface to DB2 or VSAM, and for readability I didn't want to use ISPF tables. To be honest, this question came to me from a young (experience wise) MVS applications programmer, and I didn't want to just say "don't do that", I wanted to give him all the facts and let him decide. Like the Jeff Foxworthy where he talks about when he was little: "So you wanna put a penny in a light socket?" Bzzzp. "Heh heh, bet you won't do that agin." Ciao, Lindy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: 20. elokuuta 2007 17:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ways to update PS files? Lindy Mayfield wrote: > > - And finally, if it is an application programmer type asking, the > answer is just plain No. (-: That's a terrible attitude! If the application calls for it, why would you lie to the application programmer? Honestly, systems programmers can sometimes be so arrogant! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
