You are corrrect John. FASTER was nothing like CICS.
Our programmers were having problems learning all of the ins and outs
of FASTER coding so I wrote a big macro called GENTX (Generate
Transaction) that contained little subroutines for all of the feature
of FASTER.
When we wrote a transaction we would srtart with GENTX. Then all
that was necessary was for the programmer to BAL to the desired
FASTER routine. Our on-line student registration system was written
FASTER.
When we converted to CICS/DOS-Entry I rewrote the GENTX macro with
CICS features. Almost every FASTER transcation then ran in CICS with
only a recompile needed.
/Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA for 45 years
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"Yes, Virginia, there is a Slippery Rock"
On Tue, 6 May 2008 13:27:50 -0400 Jim Bohnsack said:
>Fran--As others have said, that's quite a career, especially with one
>employer. I started with IBM on Mar. 6, 1967 as a Junior Assistant
>Probationary Trainee Systems Engineer and after the first 3 month
>class, worked with S/360 mod 30 customers. In 1970, I installed a mod
>40 and the customer ran FASTER. I don't believe it was a forerunner of
>CICS. CICS, I think, was developed by a public utility company in Ohio
>and FASTER, I think, by the police department in Kansas City. They were
>contemporaries, I'm pretty sure. We later switched to CICS and used the
>"FASTER bridge".
>
>I wasn't lucky enough to have just one employer, but I have been blessed
>by being in this "racket" for over 41 years. Later this summer, I'll
>retire, at least from full time employment.
>
>Congratulations,
>Jim
>
