Mr. Gilmore, yes, thanks for taking the time to respond to my musings. You give me the impression (albeit possibly falsely in my mind) that you are correct, when you are simply being exact. I was a DBA in D.C. government for the Y2K, and we, and I knew all the DB2 rules. But I also knew what batch jobs were running, and when, and doing what, reading, updating, etc. I also knew when I took down the CICS systems. We were stressed for time, and I let a lot of things slide because that was how the batch jobs were designed. Like I said, because I knew what was going on.
Now. Was that optimal, even good? At the time, yes. But god help them if after I left they deviated from it all. If they left an online system up and running when it shouldn't be. I certainly took my consultant pay, did whatever I had to do, and left when they told me to leave. You seem to be saying what everyone else is saying: This is how it should be done, but in some cases (like an Rexx exec), it is ok. This thread is fun, but seems to me in their own way everyone pretty much agrees with everyone else. :-) Lindy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 11:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "New" way to do UCB lookups Lindy, The point Propertius---and I, derivatively---was making was that how people think about their problems, the kinds of questions they ask, etc., etc, are shaped by what they do. We are all creatures of our experience; and that experience is different for each of us. What this thread established once again was that we often talk at cross purposes here because we are so different, see the world refracted through so many different epistemes. There is, I am sure, a place for non-reentrant, unserialized code in some universe of discourse, but not in mine. My objections to it are intellectual certainly, but they are also visceral. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
