Hello From Virginia

[ScotDiddle]

Hello,

I am a Mainframe Dinosaur.  I manage a cluster of IBM z/OS boxes for UPS Freight in Richmond Virginia.

I have extensive programming background in COBOL, REXX, ISPF, ASM... I currently manage our MVS Operating Systems.

I am studying Web 2.0 techniques, with particular attention to DHTML, AJAX, CSS, and PHP.

Web Development is challenging and it is currently one of my hobbies.

My other major hobby is Photography, you know, Film, Chemicals, Paper, Darkroom, etc.

See my website: http://www.silverdarkroom.com

I also designed, and manage my wife's website: http://www.poodlers.com

Write and say "Hi" when your can...

ScotDiddle [at] silverdarkroom [dot] com

Scot L. Diddle, Richmond VA

...No Digital --- None of the Time...

[coral1]

Hello back at you.  : )

Poke around, check things out, and although it sounds like you stay kind of busy, maybe we can talk you into writing something to put on the .com side one of these days.  : )

I have extensive programming background in COBOL...

Uh oh. Somebody Cd& <COBOLdinosaur> can waste time with.

[Huntress]

Welcome to our humble little abode Scot!

[COBOLdinosaur]

Just what I need... competition.

Welcome Scot!

I go back to 360 iron.  Did a lot of 370, and some 390.  Now I do vert little IBM stuff (webshere going into DB2 on 390s).  Mostly I am on Tandem S series.  I hve not done any assembler for a while, but COBOL is a daily thing on secure high speed OLTP with some JAVA in the mix and frontends that can be green screen, VB, PB or browser.

You will find a mix on the site of old dinosaurs and young lizards, but we get along because we all like what we are doing and we love the collaboration that goes on here.

[VGR]

you've to find a middle class for people being not old dinosaurs and not youg lizards either ;-)

Reading "green screen" makes me ROFL. I still had to work on those silly PF keys screens, and even worked on screen-scraping toolkits to integrate them into "sexy" interfaces using Tuxedo ...

Personnally, I just escaped the perforated files (correct?) but I saw 8" diskettes being still used, and there was no IBM PC and the famous computers were either the Cray-1, the expensive Apple ][ and the belgian Dai ;-))

then there was light :D
Borland issued Turbo Pascal 1.0 and there was light on Oerth :D