On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:12:26 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >Not sure why not. NIH is one possible reason. "Too new-fangled for us, our >programmers will never figure it out" might be another. > ??? It makes the desktop FS look like z/OS; view/edit with ISPF 3.17 (panel, not version) and Classic data sets appear on the desktop. Comfortable to partisans of both cultures.
Lack of time (under-staffing) or sheer laziness may be other possible reasons, along with "We're getting off the mainframe Real Soon Now (tm) so do nothing new there" for yet another. > I grant it took multiple site visits by IBM experts to work out the kinks. And we had to settle for current minus one NFS version. Sysadmins' problem, not mine. >Along with blatant mis-trust of all things application-programmer friendly. > Sysadmins are uncomfortable, perhaps envious, whenever users' understanding exceeds theirs in any area. Remember the now-abated threads of "How can we prevent programmers' using this OMVS thingy?" And early-adopter hesitancy. >Lawyers could be yet another reason. Fear of data breaches and the >accompanying liabilities and reputation loss. > >Probably as many reasons as there are shops. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
