2pts for the good guys in their white hats
On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:39 AM John McKown <john.archie.mck...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> It was going fairly well. Then management went full reverse on the
> outsourcing. They cancelled the contract. So we are in-sourcing everything
> which had been out-sourced. So OPS/mvs is staying.
>
> On Jun 10, 2017 03:56, "Tony Thigpen" <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote:
>
> > John,
> >
> > How did your OPS/MVS replacement project go? I am looking at possibly the
> > same thing.
> >
> > Tony Thigpen
> >
> > John McKown wrote on 10/25/2016 07:58 AM:
> >
> >> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Steve Horein <steve.hor...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thank you for the explanation and reasoning sir!
> >>> I supported OPS/MVS in a previous life (loved it), and I am now
> >>> supporting
> >>> NetView automation (love it), so I am lucky to be able to currently
> work
> >>> with "COMMON" variables, which are accessible to any NetView task, very
> >>> similar to OPS' Global variables. There is also the concept of NetView
> >>> "task" level variables, known only to the specific task. It's good to
> >>> know
> >>> the overhead associated with filesystems is not as bad as "traditional"
> >>> datasets, especially the buffering aspects. On a side note, I always
> >>> thought you would be a fun guy to work with, based on the things you
> do!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for the kind words about possibly being "fun to work with".
> >> But
> >> this place definitely isn't fun. We're dying ("cloud" sourcing) & I'm
> >> looking. Some of the things that I do are simply because we are, and
> have
> >> always been, cheap (vs. frugal). So I'm always looking for "zero dollar"
> >> solutions to make my work easier. Part of making my work easier is
> making
> >> other people's work easier (because then they don't bug me <grin>). I am
> >> "creatively lazy", I guess.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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