On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 15:53:15 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:
>
>... you're going against the lead systems programmer very early in my
>career (1983). One of the grunt-work things I had to do was create an
>alias for each new TSO id. I was taught the procedure as:
>
> a) Get the next paper from the pile of new TSO id requests
> b) Logon and issue a command such as:
> DEFINE ALIAS(NAME('XYZ123') RELATE('ICFCAT.SYS123'))
>
>I immediately coded that into a clist so I would make less typos. The
>lead lady saw me working one day and said No, you need to type the
>entire command out each time. Why? So you won't forget it. What if
>your clist fails to work?
>
>Well, of course I ignored that :)
>
NIH.
And UNIX mavens have advised me to maintain a mastery of "ex".
What if you must use a terminal lacking "vi" capability? (Same
about ISPF.)
And, "Code Rexx so programmers who know only FORTRAN can
understand your code."
-- gil
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