I WILL JOIN YOU NEXT SEPTEMBER, ENJOY -------------- Original message from Clifford McNeill <[email protected]>: --------------
> Pat, > > I have enjoyed your posts over the years and am sorry to see you go. Good > luck! > > Clifford McNeill > > > Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 14:58:17 -0500 > > From: [email protected] > > Subject: OT - End of a personal era > > To: [email protected] > > > > On Sept 25 my current employment ends, and since I'm not planning to > > look for another job, about 37 years of a system programming career > > ends with it. Although the last 20 of those years have been more > > support / administration / configuration of MVS communication-related > > software than any real system programming I still claim the title, and > > IBM-Main has helped my maintain that fiction. I discovered IBM-Main > > pretty late in my career (10-12 years ago maybe?) but since then it has > > been a constant source of both information and entertainment. > > > > IBM-Main is unusual among the online technical discussion venues in > > that it has a real sense of community. While this has resulted in many > > non-technical threads that have given Darren heartburn it also has > > added context to postings, making otherwise obscure comments > > understandable. I'd hate to think of that ever changing. > > > > I've decided I'll drop off the list in a week or 2 rather than hear more > > about all the neat new features of software and hardware that I will > > never see. (I'm already feeling obsolete by being stuck on z/OS 1.8 > > while others talk about 1.10, etc.) Should I forget this decision and > > start posting again feel free to remind me I have nothing useful to > > add. :-) > > > > Exception: I will probably hop back on the list late Feb to find > > out who's going to be at SHARE in Seattle. During SHARE I'll probably > > be wandering the halls - sans badge - snubbing people. > > > > Thanks and good-bye. > > > > Pat O'Keefe > > > > > > P.S. A slightly early "Another one bites the dust". > > By the end of this year all mainframe processing of the former > > Washington Mutual Bank will have been transferred to JPMorgan > > Chase or eliminated. What a year ago was one of the largest MVS > > shops in the Pacific Northwest will power off its processors and cease > > to exist. I'm glad I won't be there to see that final Z EOD. > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > _________________________________________________________________ > Ready for Fall shows? Use Bing to find helpful ratings and reviews on digital > tv's. > http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=digital+tv's&form=MSHNCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea > > =TEXT_MSHNCB_Vertical_Shopping_DigitalTVs_1x1 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
