Joel Ewing wrote:
Unless IBM were to suddenly change philosophy and do something that
would make environments that support Systems Programming on z/OS
available to casual individual users at a price that doesn't impact a
middle class budget, my expertise will soon be only historical.
IBM won't do anything unless they can see a dollar in it. It is a bit
like we humans not helping the environment and destroying it, even
though we know we need it to provide oxygen so we can continue to live.
Z/OS has a huge number of people who recognize it is a superb
environment, however there is no way we can contribute. It will die,
and it will be IBM's fault.
There is always Hercules, and MVS of course. Which is the only way I
can continue to develop Jol - which solves most of the problems with JCL
that I have seen people talk about for 40 years. And the LONGPARM
program and replace Symbolic Parameter in Card File utility I released
in the CBT tapes recently.
Hopefully, IBM will wake up and support the Z/OS environment, before it
is too late.
Clem Clarke
Author Jol - the JCL Replacement free format language
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