(This whole season feels like Friday.) A doughnut, on the other hand, requires the hole for its very definition. The hole supplies no mass or nutritional value, but without it the thing is not a doughnut. By contrast a punch card requires the solid part to give the holes meaning; they would otherwise collapse into gibberish.
. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Barry Merrill Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 12:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: What's a "ton" of JCL? [was:RE: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?] I think a box of 2000 IBM cards is on the order of 6 pounds, so a TON of JCL cards would be 333 boxes, or about 666,666 card images. But, the useful weight is zero, since we only use the holes. Barry Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD President-Programmer MXG Software Merrill Consultants 10717 Cromwell Drive Dallas, TX 75229-5112 [email protected] Fax: 214 350 3694 - Still works, received as email Tel: 214 351 1966 - Unreliable, please use email www.mxg.com HomePage: FAQ answers most questions [email protected] License Forms, Invoice, Payment, ftp information [email protected] Technical Issues MXG-L FREE ListServer http://www.mxg.com/mxg-l_listserver/ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 1:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: What's a "ton" of JCL? [was:RE: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?] Re: "ton" of JCL, at least one large shop of my prior acquaintance (20 or so years ago) had over 250,000 members in the production applications JCL libraries. Not sure how much of that was obsolete at the time, but the batch operations control product they used had vast quantities of data as well. I think that counts as a "ton" or 2 . . . :) Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 9:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level? <Snipped> . . . migrating from Cobol 4 to Cobol 5 without changing a ton of JCL (how much JCL is a "ton" anyway?). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
