On Wed, Jul 11, 2018, 14:01 Hobart Spitz <orexx...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry John. I know how businesses work. My comment was rude, sarcastic, > and uncalled for. I should not have sent it. >
Cheerfully accepted. Compared to what a person said to me on a Per language "newbies" forum, your reply was, at most, chiding. > OREXXMan > JCL is the buggy whip of 21st century computing. Stabilize it. > Put Pipelines in the z/OS base. Would you rather process data one > character at a time (Unix/C style), or one record at a time? > IBM has been looking for an HLL for program products; REXX is that > language. > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:48 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com > > > wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 1:38 PM Hobart Spitz <orexx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > John; So the production schedules set policy in your shop. Do they > pay > > > the bills too? > > > > > > > Well, they run the jobs which keep the company running which pays my > > salary. But if you want who, at least in the past, sets policy -- it was > > the end user departments. They demand, we supply. The most precious > > employees are the sales agents. No sales, no money. No money, no company. > > It runs down hill from there. I.e. the departments support the sales > force. > > We support the departments. So we are at the bottom of the support list. > > > > > -- > > There is no such thing as the Cloud. It is just somebody else’s computer. > > > > Maranatha! <>< > > John McKown > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN