On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 18:21:32 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:
>John McKown wrote:
>> Well, maybe "what if your CLIST library is lost?" would be a better
>> question. Of course, most sysprogs believe in redundancy. I XMIT all my
>> libraries to separate PS datasets. Which I then BINary download to my
>> desktop. Which I then copy to a USB "thumb" drive. Which I then take home
>> and put on my home Linux system (in ${HOME} and on both of my NAS boxes
>> which are RAID protected). I do the same, but with PAX for my work UNIX
>> directories. And the aforementioned are in addition to the normal DFHSM
>> and ADRDSSU backups which are kept on the z/OS system.
>
Cloud?
>>I tend to use "sed" or "awk".
>>
Eeew! I do that only for existing files, not ab ovo, for which I use "cat".
>>> And, "Code Rexx so programmers who know only FORTRAN can
>>> understand your code."
>>
>>Hum, and exactly how many of today's programmers know FORTRAN? I think it
>>would be better to write the code so that a COBOL programmer could
>>understand it. At least for z/OS & z/VSE shops.
>>
Partly my scientific as opposed to commercial background; partly
deliberate choice of an archaic language.
I imagine:
"Manual transmission ..."
"Maintain proficiency in long division lest your slide rule malfunction!"
"Maintain proficiency making yarn by hand lest your spinning wheel break!"
>And you're right, XMIT, USB drives, etc. have made it easy to back up
>personal datasets like the JCL people take from job to job. A long time
>ago I had a "just in case I get fired" 3480 tape at home.
>
Sometimes I've done that; sometimes I've taken the grandiose position
that I'm too ethical. Nowadays there are too many ways to get caught.
But one of the Sams has told me that cbttape.org supports stealth
submissions of what might be deemed work product.
-- gil
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