Of course! You use the best available tool for the job. Now yes, "best" involves many factors including whether there is more than one person in the shop who can maintain the code.
But this just sounds like resistance to change. I have always that many in this industry ironically tended to be Luddites. I work with a professional, capable, experienced assembler programmer who does not use the "new" (read "Z" as in 2000) machine instructions. He is not exactly opposed to them, he just never uses them. He gets the advantage of the relative jump, but is not quite comfortable coding one. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, June 28, 2019 7:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: controversy? Using _any_ tool or only _specific_ tools? This is just for discussion. I am seemingly one of few z/OS sysprogs (et al.) who view UNIX services as just another set of tools in the box, along with the "legacy" z/OS tools. E.g. I am just as willing to use "awk" for something as REXX. But I've noticed that many, my manager included, who basically avoid any programming other than REXX, and then only "TSO" REXX. Even when I use UNIX for an "ad hoc" report for myself, my manager is "unhappy" with it and asks why I don't just use REXX. Why don't I? Well, for one thing, I like and use Extended Regular Expressions. Oh, wait, those are evil too. It's just mildly irritating to be shackled to "how I do it". It's the same attitude that the CIO has -- he doesn't understand z/OS, doesn't want to learn z/OS, and so z/OS must be eliminated for efficiency reasons. I am so glad that my time is short. I don't know how short, but I'm sure that the new company will RIF me in less than 2 years. Because it's efficient and cost effective. -- Money is the root of all evil. Evil is the root of all money. With that in mind, money is made by the government ... 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
