I enjoy cross-country motorcycle trips. Unfortunately, once I started working for a consulting outfit, that fell to the wayside. :( Perhaps at my next job... (he says hopefully)
Gary Green While the big event is over, there is still time for you to help me with my efforts to assist those stricken with cancer! Please support my efforts by visiting: http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen Thank you. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 4:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another difference between platforms... ----------------------------<snip>----------------------- >On all I concur... > >Their development platforms are just as bad. > >I remember a PC project I worked on somewhere around the tail end of the 90's, a pretty big one at that. By the time project was complete, the development environment and platform had changed under our feet. I was so pissed because we couldn't just leave the project on the older platform, which caused us a few months delay. I just shook my head wishing I had a baseball bat so I can put it use on the head of someone at MS. WTH were these folks thinking? > >Last year I was called in to solve a connectivity/IDMS/DB2 problem of a home-grown VB application that connected with the mainframe DB platforms using Shadow. Turns out the ODBC driver was updated on a couple of workstations and the app stopped working. The only solution...? Recompile and rebind everything related to the app that ran on those workstations. > >I would like to say "don't get me started", but unfortunately, I >already am... :( > >Calm down, Green... Calm down.... > > --------------------------<unsnip>------------------------------ Pop a handful of Valium and start planning that mid-summer fishing trip............. Get you mind on something you enjoy. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.101 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1526 - Release Date: 6/30/2008 8:43 AM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
