Glad to see you are still kicking around, Ed! Dave Jousma
Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering Fifth Third Bank | 1830 East Paris Ave, SE | MD RSCB2H | Grand Rapids, MI 49546 616.653.8429 ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Edward Gould <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 9, 2023 3:51:58 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Dave Josuma's post **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails** I have been here lurking for the last five or so years. Here is my response to Dave’s post. As for me “arguing,” much of it had to do with IBMer’s sugar-coating many issues in older times. To name two, a few were IBM and their blind attitude towards COBOL. Arguing on COBOL was and always has been IBM’s blind attitude toward the lack of support for large table sizes. They still can’t do large table sizes (i.e., 64-bit). The other issue was for the group of IBM-Main people at GUIDE (SCIDS, to be specific) who refused to talk to other IBM Main people. The favorites on here seemed (to me anyway encourage it). I should add here that other people sent me private replies agreeing with me. The other sticking point was the old IBM HUGE fix tapes for VSAM. They still should be hung out to dry for not doing it well. The systems type started the process of turning gray from those. My point (beside the complexity of the number of fixes) and to be a bit fair towards IBM, SMPE has helped a bit in this area but not to the extent of large numbers of fixes). My health has declined over the years, so I have stayed out of IBM-Main as much as possible. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails** This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
