Is this contract or perm? Sent from my iPhone
No one said I could type with one thumb > On Sep 12, 2023, at 11:15, Bill Johnson > <00000047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
