Hi Bill,
Never happen?
If you were a systems programmer and were doing a z/OS upgrade, you
would probably have to repair some SMF, JES2 and Security Exits a lot
more than "almost never".
Regards,
David
On 2023-09-12 08:56, Bill Johnson wrote:
Making up scenarios that never or almost never happen.
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On Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 8:53 AM, David Spiegel
<00000468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Hi Jon,
Now that you've mentioned DB2, please tell me how to write/maintain a
DB2 Secondary Authorization Exit WITHOUT Assembler.
Next time my customer asks me to amend it, I will be sure to give them
your answer. (I added logic to it to allow Informatica to authenticate
via ACF2.)
Regards,.
David
On 2023-09-12 08:04, Jon Butler wrote:
There will be a need for assembler programmers for quite a while, but mainly
because over the last forty years, and long after even COBOL II added functions
and a case construction in 1987, very, very clever people decided they would
write application modules in assembler... and not waste time with comments.
Today, when companies are trying to make their systems Highly Available...or
even convert to a cloud provider's service...no one has a clue what the modules
do. Many could have been easily replaced by COBOL's ADDRESS OF or LENGTH OF or
PL/I Pointers, but of course that would have been way too easy. Very few
application programs need to control channels.
When I was interviewed by the Db2 Utilities group at the Santa Teresa lab in San Jose
(Now Silicon Valley) in 2001, I said I suppose I needed to brush up on my assembler.
They laughed and said "no one uses assembler any more." All the Utilities were
written in PL/S, now PL/X.
Not to denigrate assembler programmers, or those that decide to take up
Sanskrit, but it is a dying art.
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