On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 12:40 +0200, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > One point I'm making is that it took me years and a lot of difficult > study to grow to my current level. Yet there are many people now being > handed an MVS job to do and told to "get to it". > > Do others see this as a challenge?
No, I see it as an abrogation of corporate governance. Customers that once demanded "5 nines" (or better) of their IT department(s) now accept anything that reduces their bottom line. I am now less inclined to perpetuate the misdemeanour by answering "newbie" questions on public fora. > z/OS 1.6 ADCD (I've read) is available to download > on some of the bittorrent networks. If it is, some-one has put their gonads on the chopping block. IBMs licensing requirements tend to be very specific. And not at all magnanimous. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
