On 2021-01-15 16:22, Sri h Kolusu wrote:
Please don't patronise me with high "coding standards", you banned
me from your
forum when I commented on the fact that you suggested using UNSPEC()
to look at
the internal representation of z/OS HEX FLOAT values in order top
print them in
a PL/I program, and then deleted the postings to hide your own
incompetence!
Robert,
Ya right ! And you had the audacity to call it a bug in the product even
though you are data owner and mere checking of the data would have answered
your own question. I should have gone with my first instinct of just
ignoring your rambling. That is the only thing you do.
And that's the way IBM nowadays treats it's customers? Too bad I don't have the
email address of Arvind Krishna, I would have loved to CC: this reply to him!
Then again, maybe the "Heart to Heart" program still exists, it used to
guarantee that a letter to the CEO was only read by the CEO.
And it actually worked in a grey past: after having been shoved around for
months not receiving the updates for OS/2 I was entitled to, a "Heart to Heart"
letter to Mr Palmisano did the trick, I was contacted by a personal assistant
of the managing director of IBM UK, and two weeks later a big box with all OS/2
updates arrived!
Maybe you should have a look at
<https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/02/19/seven-steps-to-remarkable-customer-service/>,
especially item 4!
I'm sure others here have looked and looked and looked at code they wrote,
absolutely sure that it was OK, only to be informed by a colleague, after he/she
looked at it for about 42 milliseconds, that they missed out on another
"Purloined Letter"...
And more ramblings of a nobody?
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=147579
(Given the last IBM comment, not unlikely that it will be delivered)
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=100073
(Delivered)
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=31632
(Delivered)
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=84512
(Delivered)
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=145001
(Planned for future release)
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=147550
(Under consideration)
As for the product you're responsible for? In 1964 IBM developed a programming
language, PL/I, without keywords also being reserved words, alleviating the need
to ever having to change programs when new keywords were introduced. Why can't
you do that for SORT?
And did you actually read the "...and ***someone*** came up with a
really very
elegant way of performing this task, ..." (Emphasis added...) You should
have
seen, as you're also on that forum, that the solution was provided by
Jörg
Findeisen!
I stopped browsing that forum ever since they forced ads.
Using an adblocker is too hard? Ask yourself, would Frank Yaeger have been
deterred by ads when supporting an IBM product?
Kudos to Jorg > findeisen for coding a solution. And the degree of elegance
depends. So if
you are happy with the solution stick with it
And that saves? 1 nanosecond?
The question is NOT only about saving CPU cycles. The elegance you boast
isn't seen when you code such statements.
Which is really important for something that processes 209 lines of
input, and
might at some stage process as many as 300 lines on input, and it's part
of a
job that runs for about a minute, so saving a fraction of a second? And
when
SORT is invoked by the viewer, the result is usually displayed when
my finger is
still next to the Enter key.
As I said earlier I wouldn't have bothered to answer the questions from YOU
if you hadn't called an user error a bug in the product.
I guess the question marks didn't make it to your side...
Robert
--
Robert AH Prins
robert(a)prino(d)org
The hitchhiking grandfather - https://prino.neocities.org/indez.html
Some REXX code for use on z/OS - https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS-Tools.html
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