> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield > Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 2:58 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: JCL "sheesh!" for today > > Too bad such middle managers think they understand technology > when really they don't. That's why they are middle > management. With better skills they'd either be up there > making more money, or down there with you and getting proper respect.
My manager is __very__ good in the technical arena. He has been a OEM developer and a sysprog at a large outsourcer. He still does a lot of the CA sysprog stuff because he is so good at it. He just doesn't like UNIX. For what __this__ company does, UNIX is irrelevant. We only use it because we need TCPIP. We ran CA-RUNTCP a long time ago, but ran into some problems in the CICS area. The IBM stack did not have those problems. So we converted to IBM's stack. In many ways, the CA stack was better for us because it was "pure" (non-UNIX) OS/390 (it was in those days) oriented. > > Seriously, and probably this subject has bounced around here > many times, but how much time do we have before things get a > bit critical concerning exits and other sysprog modifications > and so on have been done? Which is why my manager doesn't want exits coded "in house". > > Of course I like this system stuff, that's why I am always > curious and asking (mostly dumb) lots of questions. But as a > young boy now of about 46 or so, sometimes the thought > crossed my mind, "what happens when those (youz) guys > retire?" (or worse). Given the way Europe is going, and the insanity in the mid-east, I don't worry about it. The bomb blasts will solve the problem for us all. > > Or if I am in a particular depressive mood, I can wax > apocalyptic and think what will become of IBM-MAIN when > "...our little life is rounded with a sleep." Or retirement, > but I am suspicious that there are retired people > contributing to this list. And they dare tell me to RTFM! > How about RTFMF, Read the Fine Micro-Fisch. (I cannot even spell it.) s/Fisch/Fiche/g > > :-) Smiley face. <-- > > Bu t anyway, God help you if someone like me is the last man > standing! No, that's Tim Allen (his new show - funny, but I prefered Home Improvement). > > /u/lindy -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
