Allen Staller wrote: <begin extract> Any currently processing jobs can wait for the completion of the event (minutes), with no disturbance. </end extract>
Agreed for batch jobs. Online applications may require more planning, but the problem of brief catalog unavailability is manageable, must indeed be manageable for a host of other reasons. It seems to me that Mark "completely missed the main point of my post", which was that the energy devoted to finding reasons for not doing things might better be devoted to doing them. Misunderstanding of this sort, purported or real, may, however, be inescapable. They come with disagreements. Almost exactly 60 years ago Bertrand Russell wrote "The most influential school of philosophy in Britain at the present day maintains a certain linguistic doctrine to which I am unable to subscribe. I do not wish to misrepresent this school, but I suppose any opponent of any doctrine is thought to misrepresent it by those who hold it." John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
