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
> >
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