I'm going to patent the big toe. Everybody who walks must pay me a royality. UPTSO is full of fools and failed engineers.
John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Thomas > Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:12 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL > with Unix like commands > > Ummm say doc (switching to Bugs Bunny accent) ... would that be > why Microsoft got a patent for PDSs ?? .. a concept that's been > around even before Microsoft. > > From the 'Summary Of The Invention' for U.S. patent no. > 6,594,674, 'System > and > method for creating multiple files from a single source > file', which was > issued > today to Microsoft: > > Kind Regards > > Jim Thomas > 617-233-4130 (mobile) > 636-294-1014 (res) > j...@thethomasresidence.us (Email) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of John McKown > Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 9:10 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL > with Unix like > commands > > On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 14:45 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll <wdri...@us.ibm.com> > wrote: > > > In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people > with mainframe > > > backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and > integrate usage of > > > non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an > "open-systems" > > > background show a willingness to learn anything about the > mainframe. > > > > I completely agree with this statement. It is typically a > requirement > > of mainframe types to understand open system terminology and then > > speak of mainframe using open systems language. sysplex vs. cluster > > is a typical rough and ready analogy. > > > > I've yet to see an open system person have even a vague > understanding > > of record oriented I/O or PDS processing. > > > > The list goes on and on. > > PDS is a weird beastie. IMO, the closest analogy would be a directory > with very restricted file names. Record I/O might be possible if they > use a "looping" language like C or Perl to process each row in an SQL > result set. > > -- > John McKown > Maranatha! <>< > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1516/3772 - Release > Date: 07/18/11 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu 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 lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
