[email protected] (Paul Gilmartin) writes: > The PARMDD rules, like much of JCL, (will) fall squarely in category > (2). Circa 1964, there was an excuse: IBM was in a desperate > rush to get OS/360 out the door and into revenue. Things _should_ > be different in the 21st Century. z/OS is vastly more complex than > OS/360 and proportionally more consideration should have been > given to usability.
shades of SHARE LSRAD report (Dec1979) ... I scanned my copy and finally got SHARE permission to put up on bitsavers http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/share/ on the other hand ... there is this on canceling ACS-360 http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/acs_end.html from Amdahl interview: IBM management decided not to do it, for it would advance the computing capability too fast for the company to control the growth of the computer marketplace, thus reducing their profit potential. I then recommended that the ACS lab be closed, and it was. .... snip ... goes on to describe how features from ACS-360 eventually show up in ES/9000 twenty years later (from annals of release no hardware/software before its time). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
