On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:03 AM Sean Gleann <[email protected]> wrote:
> To John McKown:
>
> I sense your frustration, sir.
>
Oh, I didn't mean to come across as frustrated. I was just wanting to
throw a "spit ball" into the discussion {grin}. I was going with the PERL
motto: TMTOWTDI (Tim Toady) -- There is More Than One Way To Do It. Since
all the other, very good, suggestions were using "legacy" methods, I
thought a "spit ball" would be fun.
>
> The fact is that I have a great deal of difficulty dealing with anything
> unix-y.
> When I get anywhere close to USS stuff, co-workers here have described the
> outcome as being similar to throwing a crucifix at a vampire - I tend the
> 'fizz' a lot. :)
> That's the price to be paid for having been a mainframer for 45+ years and
> rapidly approaching retirement
>
I've been in the mainframe since 1976 myself. But I am a Linux partisan
(penguinista) and have used it for over 10 years. So I'm a fairly UNIX
literate in writing shell scripts and simple commands. And sometimes TSO
just frustrates me because there is not a real way to issue a series of TSO
commands in a row, passing the output of one to the input of another.
Except, of course, by writing a REXX program as a member of a PDS on my
SYSPROC or SYSEXEC concatenation. But this is more in the legacy
development mode -- edit; test; revise; repeat. And I'm forced to keep a
"junk" member in my PDS just for "ad hoc" purposes.
> Regards
> Sean
>
There is no such thing as the Cloud. It is just somebody else’s computer.
Maranatha! <><
John McKown
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