In <00bc01c4e179$2373a390$67fea...@charlesnotebook>, on 12/13/2004
at 05:06 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> said:
>IMHO one of the big problems facing the mainframe going forward is
>documentation which cannot be used effectively unless you ALREADY know
>all about whatever you are looking up.
As opposed to the windows world where there often is no documentation.
>How would anyone
>answer the question "how do I do disk I/O from an assembly program"
By asking for the relevant data, e.g., for what platform.
>unless one already knew that the information would be found in "DFSMS
>Macro Instructions for Datasets"?
Only for systems related to z/OS, and even then it might not be the right
answer. Just like on the PC; you need to ask the right question.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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
