Re: New Mainframe Blog Site -- mainframeblogger.com

In article <s09e14dbm105nki5c77lmi88echgm7r846@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Howard Brazee  <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:00:06 -0700 (PDT), spam.trap.4646@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>wrote:
>
>>Do COBOL programmers still write re****t programs in some shops?  I
>>haven't written one in at least 10 years, and I've been working in the
>>IBM mainframe world all of that time.  All of our re****ts are produced
>>by QMF, or, if intended for customers, via AFP.
>
>Sure.   I added a traditional re****t to an extract program yesterday.

I tried to post this yesterday but it went... someplace else... so I'll 
try again.

On my current site I'm doing payroll processing on a system that got its 
start in the late 1970s and functions, more-or-less, as though nothing has

changed.  The shop 'aged' in the late 1990s and everybody retired... and 
then got re-hired as contractors for Y2K... and then got fired again... 
and then got re-contracted when ****tions of the processing were to be 
outsourced in 2005... and then got re-fired again.

What's left is extraordinarily unsophisticated and primitive, mostly 
internal SORTs and flat-file match/merge processing... there is one, count

'em, one VSAM KSDS with an alternate index that was instituted in 2004... 
a couple-three indexed files with a primary key and everything else is 
flat files with multiple record types.

(there is also, of course, no Business Analysis or Requirements Protocol)

I've been keeping myself amused by doing as much as I can in DFSort, 
re****ts included.

DD