Re: Re: New IT personnel

[John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 5:41 AM, Winchester Terry
<terry.winchester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Although CICS was solid communications interface, I was glad to leave the
> "conversational" world and move to the midrange where most of the grunt work
> was done by the OS ... and "smart" files :)

I don't know what "conversational" means in this context, but Dave
Clark was saying that display programming on the IBM i *is*
conversational, and that CICS gives you a choice of conversational or
not.

Here's what he said, exactly:

> The mainframe CICS programming standard is that
> you don't leave programs/transactions active while waiting for the user to
> key things in on the screen because this ties up resources that could be
> used elsewhere.  You can make it conversational (as it is on the IBM i)
> and therefore have no issue with state -- but, as I said, that is not
> recommended.

John Y.