On 13Dec08:1449-0800, Scott Ford wrote: > I don't know what your profession is , but in 40+ > yrs and about 20+ shops, many in the NYC area and very > very aggressive with their applications, including > z/OS, VM and VSE , I never ever had to worry about it > ..Give me an example of such a concern ?
Back in the early '70s when I was a mere OS/MVT/HASP operator, I developed an assembler program to process FORTRAN statements containing literal non-integers. Converting C'123.45' into its HFP equivalent or back may not be something you ever needed to develop. > BTW I have been commercially developing software > for 10+ years the other years with some of the world's > biggest companies.. I'd rather not run the risk of violating listserv policy by posting details, but you should be able to find my career details online if it really matters to you. > I am trying to understand your point . I see fluff, > where's the example, real world, maybe NASA or JPL or > some government IBM software installation, I will give > you that ... The NASA Goddard GRTS system certainly had such concerns but I was only responsible for the virtual machine in which it ran. -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
