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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
... I was amused by IBM JCL. All of eight statements in the language, but it was a black art, and everyone used someone else's canned procs instead of trying to write their own. I got yelled at at one point because I tweaked the JCL on a job to boost it's prioriy, and got a "Don't do that!" reprimand from the VP of Applications Development. I'm not sure whether he was more upset that I'd done it, or that I wasn't a member of the IT staff...
This might help: https://forums.att.com/t5/Third-Part...y/td-p/3434307 |
It was pretty simple, and considering the nature of our setup, it was kind of weird to have all this accounting and user control stuff for a mini that had only one terminal attached to it.
... well, actually, one of my coworkers had run wires out from his benches and set up his personal machine to act as a second terminal so he could monitor both benches from a back room, but back then (late '80s) that was akin to high sorcery. I know how he did it now, but I wasn't anything remotely network-savvy at the time, and yet I was one of only a few people who could write subroutines in JCL or (gasp) write a machine-language routine to be thumbed into the computer by hand.
That's an interesting link, and may just work, though I am leery about double-NATting. Then again, that's essentially what VPN and TOR is, right?
... I could try it the "legal" way before going the questionable route. Hurts nothing and no one (well, except for the inevitable hue and cry that the internet is down until I finish the job).
Thanks for the link!