Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Mon Apr 22 02:47:41 2002

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
Received on Mon Apr 22 2002 - 02:47:41 BST

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