For me JCL isn't really so bad. Personally, IMHO, etc, etc, I really do like working with something that has been evolved and gotten better over the past 40 or so years. You can still easily see the history in all of it. I love the fact that they say you can run the first 360 program on today's biggest and baddest zSeries box.
The other end of the spectrum is Microsoft who tries to come out with something brand new every few years, and they don't care if nothing works anymore. They cannot make my DOS 1.1 programs run on XP or Vista and they don't care either. IBM made this promise to their customers and pretty much came through with their promise. They're not perfect, but I'm very impressed that they've done some much to protect their customers' investments like they've done so far. /Lindy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel A. McLaughlin Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 5:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What's a programming language What about REXX as an alternative? Well, there are limitations...so is JCL really all that bad? Daniel McLaughlin ZOS Systems Programmer Crawford & Company PH: 770 621 3256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you aim at nothing you will hit it every time. - Zig Ziglar ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
