On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.)
>
I tend to use "sed" or "awk".
>
> And, "Code Rexx so programmers who know only FORTRAN can
> understand your code."
>
Hum, and exactly how many of today's programmers know FORTRAN? I think it
would be better to write the code so that a COBOL programmer could
understand it. At least for z/OS & z/VSE shops.
>
> -- gil
>
>
--
Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping.
Maranatha! <><
John McKown
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