On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Raymond Moyers wrote:
I bet perl becomes bigtime on mainframes
This frightens me.
-Dave
The 60 Billion fold increase in function ?
08:18:29 QUERY ALL
08:18:29 RDR 00C INT REQ
08:18:29 RDR 00C STARTED SYSTEM
08:18:29 RDR 00C READING FILE = 0001
08:18:29 PUN 00D STARTED SYSTEM CLASS = P SEP
08:18:29 PRT 00E STARTED SYSTEM CLASS = CALT SEP
08:18:29 GRAF 040 LOGON AS MAINT
08:18:29 GRAF 041 LOGON AS OPERATOR
Or do you think the above is what the mainframe
should be limited to ?
Or the wonderfullness of mvs and tso ?
00003 JOBS 00006 INITIATORS
00000 TIME SHARING USERS
00000 ACTIVE 00008 MAX VTAM TSO USERS
With wonderfull error messages like
- TSU 5 IEF450I HERC01 IKJACCNT TSOLOGON - ABEND S522 U0000 -
I mean .. comm on Mr Luddite ... linux is the best thing s390 has
seen since CP/CMS showed up
and to replicate the function of scripting languages ..
dont you use REXX at least ?
But REXX isn't a big stinking pile of crap. And I use a whole lot of JCL.
Peace... Sridhar