Sorry John. I know how businesses work. My comment was rude, sarcastic, and uncalled for. I should not have sent it.
OREXXMan JCL is the buggy whip of 21st century computing. Stabilize it. Put Pipelines in the z/OS base. Would you rather process data one character at a time (Unix/C style), or one record at a time? IBM has been looking for an HLL for program products; REXX is that language. On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:48 PM, John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 1:38 PM Hobart Spitz <orexx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > John; So the production schedules set policy in your shop. Do they pay > > the bills too? > > > > Well, they run the jobs which keep the company running which pays my > salary. But if you want who, at least in the past, sets policy -- it was > the end user departments. They demand, we supply. The most precious > employees are the sales agents. No sales, no money. No money, no company. > It runs down hill from there. I.e. the departments support the sales force. > We support the departments. So we are at the bottom of the support list. > > -- > There is no such thing as the Cloud. It is just somebody else’s computer. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
