For my 2 cents worth, I totally agree with Barbara. We don't have any use for Unix at our installation. The only real reason we have to keep up with and maintain UNIX is for TCP/IP. We don't have any substantial use for UNIX. Okay, ServerPac, but, I could just as easily use the tapes.
By choices made by the Powers that be or did be, the Mainframe and new application development have been functionally stabilized and sunsetted. That was 10 years ago, but the exile order is still in place. I have no burning desire to learn UNIX when I am trying to maintain my knowledge of MVS, OEM products, and, develop my own solutions for the requirements here. If IBM were to scrap MVS and say 1.11 will not have a MVS nucleus but rather a UNIX kernel to drive everything else, then I would have a new direction. Until then, I remain, and quite happily, a MVS systems programmer who tolerates UNIX like an itch I can't scratch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
