Paul, I don't want to start a "let's pick on Paul" thread, but these (almost) daily bashings of this platform's shortcomings are really getting boring.
I have a challenge for you: Find some of the smartest developers you know, write an operating system that addresses all the shortcomings of (or things you dislike about) z/OS, *nix, win-doze and any other systems you've worked on. Then come back in about 20-25 years and see if it holds up half as well as this platform has to whatever technology is available / popular at the time. We all know that other platforms can and do some things better and perhaps some of those things can be changed on this platform. It takes time, money, and enough good reasons to do so. Where do you want to see your dollars spent? I think I can handle putting a single quote around a unix path name in JCL so OS enhancements that meet our business needs are addressed first. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
