I agree that programmers should adopt tools from other platforms, but only when they are appropriate tools for the job at hand, not simply because they are in style. A good hammer is an essential tool, but it's a terrible screwdriver.
When it comes to configuration control and serialization tools, the infrastructure had better match the tool set or chaos will result. I'd advise looking at things on a project by project basis and concentrate on selecting appropriate tools for new projects rather than making disruptive changes to old projects. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Jerry Callen <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 8:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Zowe for systems programmer ? On Sun, Sep 2, 2018, 9:56 AM Bruce Armstrong <[email protected]> wrote: > If you know what ISPF is and are happy with it ....you may not be the > target market for Zowe. Zowe is primarily targeted for the "next gen" > sysprog who does not have 30+ years of learning the the nuances of > z/OS and ISPF. Or - maybe you are the target market, but don't yet know it. I *DO* have many years of experience with z/OS -- I learned to program in PL/I and assembler on OS/MVT in the early 1970s and was a systems programmer through the mid 1980s. I've worked on more modern z/OS systems for the past 4 years. I also have many years of experience with both Unix and Windows systems. It's that experience that makes me so excited about the potential of Zowe. It's providing a framework for bringing highly-evolved system management tools of all kinds to z/OS. This will ultimately make the systems programmer's job easier. That's not a bad thing. It's not just that the "next gen" programmers need to learn z/OS -- it's time for established z/OS programmers to start adopting tools and practices from other platforms, too. -- Jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
