Re: Union Pacific Ra ilroad dit ches its m ainframe f or SOA‏

2009-12-22 Thread David Crayford
Wayne Bickerdike wrote: Thanks John, Never too old to learn a new word: quondam :belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; Well HLASM is still an erstwhile friend where I work and indeed at the rascally Dave Crayford's place of crust-earning. (Hi David - Merry Christmas!). That's tr

Re: Union Pacific Ra ilroad dit ches its m ainframe f or SOA‏

2009-12-22 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Thanks John, Never too old to learn a new word: quondam :belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; Well HLASM is still an erstwhile friend where I work and indeed at the rascally Dave Crayford's place of crust-earning. (Hi David - Merry Christmas!). Dave and I were discussing "mainframe

Re: Union Pacific Ra ilroad dit ches its m ainframe f or SOA‏

2009-12-22 Thread john gilmore
David Crayford writes: | The application is written in HLASM which is an esoteric | language with a shortage of skills. I doubt that the HLASM itself lacks the skills needed to write any application, whatever exactly that may mean. Perhaps what Mr. Crayford really means to say is that all of