On 2014-05-06 08:30, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > > This is a question that has been on my mind for some time now while perusing > responses like yours and others from the IBMer's who monitor this list. The > consistent message seems to be that mainframe development resources are very > constrained, so only the most important/most useful/most justified projects > (FSVO most) can be undertaken. (E.G., "functional stability" for the TSO and > ISPF and Rexx components, among many others.) > This turns a blind eye on the truth that the march of history imposes new requirements in areas that the developers would like to believe "functionally stabilized". For example:
o SUBMIT still imposes a FIXED 80 restriction, ignoring that both JES2 and JES3 liberated themselves from this restriction several years ago. o DDLIST gives incorrect results in a member search of a mixed concatenation of UNIX and PDS directories. o ISPF LMINIT is incompatible with UNIX files/directories. o DDLIST limits its display to 80 columns with an absurd 24-column scrolling area, regardless that wider terminals are prevalent. o FTP JESLRECL is limited to 254, an archaic and irrelevant limit. Etc. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
