[Info-vax] Restrict the use of SUBMIT/USER= to one particular user.

johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Nov 10 16:12:50 EST 2016


On Thursday, 10 November 2016 20:31:06 UTC, VAXman-  wrote:
> In article <o02i4p$oqc$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> >Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> >
> >> and we all end up writing our own 
> >> requeuing and resubmission tools, duplicate job prevention and 
> >> detection, and other such, and then there's the lack of provision in 
> >> OpenVMS for scheduling jobs across clusters, and then there's that the 
> >> queue manager system service API is... baroque... at best, and very 
> >> limited in what it provides.
> >
> >This is the part that I'd like to address.  Just what's wrong with people 
> >designing and implementing their own solutions?  I'm not going to believe that 
> >only the OS developers can do well with this task, nor that they understand 
> >everyone's requirements.
> 
> Because we should all become zombie users with drool down our chins while we
> marvel at the one size fits all, the all encompassing, the all knowing solu-
> tions that have been provided to us.  This is way too sacrosanct for faineant
> zombie users with drool down our chins.  Thinking outside the box is absolute
> sacrilege for simple zombie users with drool down our chins!  I hear echoes of
> "Where do you want to go today?"
> 
> -- 
> VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker    VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG
> 
> I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.

"Where do you want to go today?"

I thought the authorised version back then was
"What did you want to work today?"

Or the year after next year's version:
"How much do you want to pay today?"

As for the five years out version: who knows.



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