In a message dated 3/19/2009 12:29:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
is that it is open to users of IBM mainframes (or similar) without regard to operating system. I am fairly certain that there a number of contributors to the list that, in fact, do not work with z/OS. >> When it was started in 1986 it was to encourage cross communication between the different IBM BCP's. We were having trouble with Cross domain and routing print to the users to networked printers and getting all the pagedefs, formdefs, OVERLAYs and PSEGs to match up in a coherent fashion. With HESC there was a lot of available software on VM that we couldn't afford on MVS, so making due with what we had or using VM as a tool to generate usable stuff for MVS was a challenge. As security, TCPIP, middleware and CMOS boxen came down the pipe it got more and more interesting. Fortunately, the list grew and the expertise from the venders contributed to it's success. Hard to believe coming up on 23 years in June. **************Great Deals on Dell 15" Laptops - Starting at $479 (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220029050x1201385914/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doub leclick.net%2Fclk%3B212974460%3B34272906%3Bh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
