It was going fairly well. Then management went full reverse on the
outsourcing. They cancelled the contract. So we are in-sourcing everything
which had been out-sourced. So OPS/mvs is staying.
On Jun 10, 2017 03:56, "Tony Thigpen" <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote:
> John,
>
> How did your OPS/MVS replacement project go? I am looking at possibly the
> same thing.
>
> Tony Thigpen
>
> John McKown wrote on 10/25/2016 07:58 AM:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Steve Horein <steve.hor...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for the explanation and reasoning sir!
>>> I supported OPS/MVS in a previous life (loved it), and I am now
>>> supporting
>>> NetView automation (love it), so I am lucky to be able to currently work
>>> with "COMMON" variables, which are accessible to any NetView task, very
>>> similar to OPS' Global variables. There is also the concept of NetView
>>> "task" level variables, known only to the specific task. It's good to
>>> know
>>> the overhead associated with filesystems is not as bad as "traditional"
>>> datasets, especially the buffering aspects. On a side note, I always
>>> thought you would be a fun guy to work with, based on the things you do!
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you for the kind words about possibly being "fun to work with".
>> But
>> this place definitely isn't fun. We're dying ("cloud" sourcing) & I'm
>> looking. Some of the things that I do are simply because we are, and have
>> always been, cheap (vs. frugal). So I'm always looking for "zero dollar"
>> solutions to make my work easier. Part of making my work easier is making
>> other people's work easier (because then they don't bug me <grin>). I am
>> "creatively lazy", I guess.
>>
>>
>>
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