On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Jantje. <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:18:29 -0500, John McKown <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> >In the future, I plan to try to answer such questions as completely as
> >possible.
>
> Great. But from what I have read so far on the list, you are already doing
> this. Thanks for that.
>

Thanks for the kind words. My time left may be short because my company is
discontinuing use of z/OS "hard" by no later than Dec 2015. And their plan
will work. Because the part of the business which is serviced by the z/OS
system is being terminated. All current clients have been informed that
their contracts are non-renewable. The new platform of choice is "cloud
based". And that seems to say that the Windows/Linux/AIX/Solaris people's
time is limited too. I know that the company has long stated that "we want
to be out of the IT business". Of course, they'll still need somebody local
for desktop and IP support issues. But they may outsource that to a local
support company like Geeks-R-Us. I'm sure that they will _love_ that.
Children should not be allowed to play with blasting caps.



>
> >answer a question is with a complete program, I plan to use the "gist"
> >capability on http://github.com, rather than clutter up the list,
>
> My company (and I guess many others) blocks access to all such
> file-sharing services, unfortunately.
>

Educate your management? Maybe get them a "clue stick" for Christmas?
<grin/>. I guess they don't allow access to the CBTTape either? My
condolences!


>
> Maybe you could consider using attachments to the posts?
>

Perhaps I am out-of-date. What I was trying to do by using github was to
reduce the number of copies of things "flying around on the Internet" and
thus to decrease bandwidth on the backbone networks. And to not "shove"
large, possibly unwanted,  files to everybody here.



>
> Cheers,
>
> Jantje.
>
>
-- 
There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people!
Genghis Khan

Maranatha! <><
John McKown

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