Edward, JES2 derived from HASP = Houston Automatic Spooling Program
>From FOLDOC (Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing): A program developed by IBM for NASA in the 1960s to SPOOL output on OS/MFT and OS/MVT to improve job processing performance. Houston, that'll be Texas then... But I guess you knew that already :-) Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward E. Jaffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Monday, 10 April, 2006 12:49 PM Subject: Re: Over my head in a JES exit > Rob Scott wrote: > > > > I have always wondered why the JES2 developers always seem to move > > things around so much - offsets for major control block pointers seem to > > alter with every release. Is this done because they have delivered the > > source and it is more difficult to provide that extra layer of > > insulation between API and main processing or it is a deliberate policy > > decision to not go that extra mile for compatability? > > > > They're cowboys. :-) > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 > Los Angeles, CA 90045 > 310-338-0400 x318 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
