Re: Messages as Programming Interfaces

2009-07-19 Thread Zahir Hemini
Our automation system relies heavily on the content of messages and has not failed us in 10 versions of z/OS. We have an automation product that reads the text of messages and enables the execution of tasks, depending on the text and passing extract of text to subroutines. I have never seen a

Re: Messages as Programming Interfaces

2009-07-07 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:07:54 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: It is my understanding that IBM discourages the use of message texts as programming interfaces. Can anyone point me to a clear statement of this in IBM documentation? (Notwithstanding that IBM is very reluctant to

Messages as Programming Interfaces

2009-07-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
It is my understanding that IBM discourages the use of message texts as programming interfaces. Can anyone point me to a clear statement of this in IBM documentation? (Notwithstanding that IBM is very reluctant to change messages lest that disrupt automated operations.) Thanks, gil

Re: Messages as Programming Interfaces

2009-07-06 Thread Skip Robinson
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Re: Messages as Programming Interfaces

2009-07-06 Thread P S
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.comwrote: While not a 'programming interface' as such, message text figures prominently in all automation products I know of, including IBM's. Great pains are taken to inform customers of text changes via 'AO' System Hold