I’ve done upgrades. Numerous times. Of z/OS, DB2, CICS, IMS, MQ, TSS, and a boatload of third party software.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 9:11 AM, David Spiegel <00000468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: 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. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > 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. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
