The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well.
[email protected] (Frank Swarbrick) writes: > I can think of several ways that JCL could be improved to help me > here. Unfortunately I get the feeling no one at IBM is interested in > enhancing JCL... (How about IBM open source z/OS. Then some > industrious person could make some nice enhancements and give them > back to IBM!) that was part of oco-wars (i.e. object code only) in the early 80s ... previously source was available ... and even earlier, "open". misc. past posts mentioning unbundling (motivated by gov. litigation), although company made case it should only application software ... system/kernel software should still be free. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle nearly decade later also decided that kernel/system software was no longer free ... happened about the time I was going to release "resource manager" ... and got tapped to be the guinea pig ... and had to spend some time with business people about policies for kernel/system software charging. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#fairshare then came the OCO battles ... about no longer shipping source. in the middle of the OCO-battles ... I did a large application all in rexx (except 120 lines of assembler) ... in part, just so source would have to be shipped. -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
