Exactly. Problem seems to be that the folks developing new-age tooling are fully from the new-age tooling world, with very limited hands-on time with z/OS. Experience means something, else we're doomed to keep repeating the same mistakes in different implementations, opting for a 'fresh start' each time.
- KB ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, August 19th, 2021 at 5:58 AM, Andrew Rowley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18/08/2021 1:59 pm, kekronbekron wrote: > > > Objectively, this has got to be madness. > > > > Just look at the JCL that's being shoved into a horrid, horrid Python > > program. > > > > ~200 lines to replace 18 lines of JCL. > > I believe that JCL is better compared to languages like XML, YAML, JSON > > etc. than programming languages like Python. > > So I thought it was ironic that the configuration information (dataset > > names, space etc.) were extracted into a YAML file. You could come > > pretty close to the same result using a JCL procedure... > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Andrew Rowley > > Black Hill Software > > ------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
