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- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 10:30:00 EDT
- Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion list <IBM-MAIN@RICEVM1.BITNET>
- From: postman Bill Wylbur <$WYL@PCCJES2.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: QUEUE vs SDSF vs IOF
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- I second this message as everyone here loves IOF and its SPEED is unbeliveable
- with quick access to the formentioned items.
- All I can say about Woren's reply in reference to Mr. I of FI the OEM vendor..
- is... I would never buy a single thing from IBM if I made it a personal issue,
- BUT I have lots of friends at BIG BLUE.. and I respect the company and its
- mult-years of trying to meet the users needs.... same goes with FI... and my
- experience is that they also are trying to meet the user worlds needs....
-
- Thanks and my ALL have a Good-Day and Weekend.. Bill at, US/FDA,PCC
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- > I think each package has their followers and there are good and bad
- > points for all of them. I have never used anything but IOF for the
- > last 10 years. The latest release of IOF (release 7) has some very nice
- > enhancements:
- >
- > - full screen device control (NJE,RJE,INITIATORS,PRINTERS,OFFLOAD...)
- > - 1 to 8 job prefixes or all jobs selected (controlled thru profile)
- > - capability to build a 2 level index associated with a jobs output
- > (can any other package go to page 3000 of a 5000 page rpt in 2 sec)
- > (or have all the total pages of a large finance report indexed by
- > department or any other combination you would like)
- > - invoke a clist that will trim down the 80 production jobs that you
- > have to check every day, to show jobs that abended or had non zero
- > return codes
- >
- > It's hard to convince people that one thing is better than another if
- > they are capable of the same functions. To really get their intrest,
- > show them something they can't do now that they would really like.
- >
- >
- > Ken Sears.
-