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Carmen Vitullo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Mulder" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2019 1:36:00 PM Subject: Re: IARV64 - why ABEND rather than return with reason code? I agree with all of that. But that is an area of IBM where I have no influence. When you work for a large company, you either learn to live with things like that, or you spend a lot of your time being very frustrated. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" <[email protected]> wrote on 01/28/2019 06:08:35 AM: > From: "David Spiegel" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 01/28/2019 01:44 PM > Subject: Re: IARV64 - why ABEND rather than return with reason code? > Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" <[email protected]> > > Hi Jim, > You said: "... It is unfortunate that IBM does not make PL/X (which > has object-oriented capabilities) available > to ISVs. ..." > > It is also unfortunate that PL/X was not made available to customers, > just like there is no free z/OS (and z/VM, z/VSE) Download for students > and other non-commercial users. > It seems to be counter-intuitive that in a market where mainframe > assembler programming and SMP/E skills are becoming extinct, that IBM > would not be wanting > to be more flexible to attract the younger crowd (a la LInux). This is > especially astounding, given that z/OS is such a large IBM investment > (in both hardware and software). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
