On 5/2/2013 2:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Thu, 2 May 2013 17:22:51 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:
Some shops have even institutionalized practices that produce
duplicate jobname values.
I know of one that long required development programmers who used the
submit command to use their TSOIDs as the name of every job they
All because they haven't yet grasped the concept of "OWNER".
Exactly! Ownership came along when RACF (and other ACF packages) came
along in the 1980s. I'm still astonished at the number of installations
and software products from IBM in 2013 that continue to institutionalize
this obsolete use of job names to identify ownership of a job. (You know
who you are... ;-) )
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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