Edward Jaffe wrote: <begin snippet> It has been asserted that TSO is the only z/OS application environment in 2011 (soon 2012) that can't handle that fundamental requirement. I'm trying to discover if that's a true statement. </end snippet>
I know of no other, and no one has posted another example here. I strongly suspect, therefore, that there is none. Viewed more generally, however, such propositions are problematic, as I am sure EJ knows. They are variants of universal negatives, e.g., o There are no black swans o All men are mortal that allow of a single exception, e.g., Stygius here is a black swan, but there are no others. They are easy to refute by the production of a single counter-example but impossible to establish in general. In this case, qualified slightly to make it o TSO is the only important z/OS MVS subsystem . . . a strong Bayesian argument that it is true is available. I should bet that it is true, particularly since the availability of the weasel word 'important' would provide me with a way to deal with any inconvenient counter-example that was produced later. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
