No place is all bad. The same company started me, upon hiring, on several days of Deltak courses, one on JCL and one on COBOL. It is to them that I owe a lifelong familiarity with JCL. I wonder sometimes how mainframers get on without it.
(Well, "lifelong": It was 1980, so I was probably 26.) --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. -Daniel Webster */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Friday, March 15, 2024 15:38 That sounds like a hostile working environment. The people doing a code review should know the language and the local standards; nit sounds like they knew neither. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Bob Bridges <00000587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2024 12:37 PM ....I once worked at a company that instituted code reviews; a new program would be gone over by a half-dozen coworkers to be sure it adhered to local standards. This sort of thing is always painful to the coder, and nevertheless (I admit reluctantly) can have considerable value if done right. One problem I had with it, though, is that the standards we created for ourselves admitted that there are times when exceptions should be made for special cases, and yet when those cases arose no exceptions were ever allowed; the team invariably flinched, leaned back in their seats and said "no, that's not according to our standards". One particular example always rankled: Whenever someone felt the need to use a STRING or UNSTRING command (I should have said we were COBOL developers), the team always struck it down on the grounds that STRING and UNSTRING are unusual commands and some COBOL coders would be unfamiliar with it. My contention here is that that's absolutely true, and it's the job of the COBOL coder to ~learn~ the STRING and UNSTRING statements, as tools of his profession. I never persuaded anyone to that view, though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
