Good day at work
Jul. 18th, 2003 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerI was tasked to take a file, copy it 50 times and make a change in each one to reflect the file number (file NQT001 was to be copied to NQT002...NQT050. Inside each file there were a few pointers that used the number of the file itself). This would take me, probably, a couple of hours. And bore the shit out of me.
So instead I spent 6 hours learning how the IBM Mainframe scripting language (REXX) works and making it do it for me. Much more fun, I learned a lot, and in the end I discovered that the task will probably need to be done weekly. So I've saved myself 2 boring hours a week. Yay! And learned something. Yay!
If only all days were this good.
So instead I spent 6 hours learning how the IBM Mainframe scripting language (REXX) works and making it do it for me. Much more fun, I learned a lot, and in the end I discovered that the task will probably need to be done weekly. So I've saved myself 2 boring hours a week. Yay! And learned something. Yay!
If only all days were this good.
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Date: 2003-07-19 05:34 am (UTC)