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David McRitchie

Hard work is never easy.

Email: DMcRitchie@hotmail.com

URL: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/home.htm

myself

Experience with the following:

My main interests have been in writing utility types of programs and in documenting them.   Being able to carry at least some of the programming and documentation across platforms is also an interest.   Most of my experiences involves PL/I, REXX, or SCRIPT/VS. 

• CLISTs, have converted most of my clists REXX executes, and macros. 
• COBOL, have not touched it in over 20 years. 
• DCF, SCRIPT/VS -- have done a lot of work in this area. 
• Excel, Microsoft MVP since 1999, “My Excel Pages” at http://www.mvps.org/dmcritche/excel/excel.htm
• Firefox, (web browser) pages at //www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm
• GML, (General Markup Language) is a tagged macro form of SCRIPT/VS.  I created some tags but most of my DCF macros were not formalized into tags.   The simple GML tags in the supplied GML Starter Set are similar to the less rich tags in HTML.  GML is a predecessor of both SGML and HTML.  I have never used SGML.   HTML implementations are supposed to conform to SGML, but every web browser appears to want to rewrite the standards. 
• HTML, Have generated lots of useful information.   Created an HTML copy of our Operations SOP Manual from DCF source maintained on the mainframe.   Created HTML copies of a few WORD6 documents using RTFTOHTML converters.   Some documents was produced by coding HTML and modifying with MS Word and Internet Assistant.  Some documents were converted with the help of my TXT2HTML macro.  All documents have been updated using SPF/PC.  Maintain popular websites for REXX Macros and one for Excel macros.  Wrote a macro to convert and Excel spreadsheet to HTML which usually are about one third the size of those generated by software applications.
• InterNet, was on the Applications InterNet Committee at my former company. 
• ISPF/PDF, wrote a lot of macros, and clists.   Usage of panels in most of my material is nonexistent initially because of unfamiliarity and mainly due the to fact that they generally make things clumsier unless you really need them. 
• Lotus Notes, used for about six months at my former company.   Have written a couple of applications to aid the LAN group and the Help desk in an inventory of PCs, and some more used for migration to Windows NT and shared with the Help desk.  
• OS/2, had used OS/2 and had a lot of REXX written for OS/2.   Since I am no longer using OS/2, I have not included REXX executes on my site, but the many of the macros include code so that they will run on the mainframe, OS/2 or on Windows without additional versions. 
• Windows NT 4.0, is what I last had at work.   On my own computer I have Windows NT 4.0 Workstation. 
• PL/I, have written a lot of mainframe utility type programs in PL/I over a period of 27 years at my former company most of those years were in the systems programming area.  PL/I (Programming Language ONE) is sometimes written or abbreviated as PLI, PL1, or PL/1. 
• PLR, maintained Program Load Request system, which was written for in-house use in my former company by an outside consultant.   From it I gained familiarity with panel usage in ISPF/PDF. 
• Power Point, gave a presentation on Right Click menus and Bookmarklets in Internet Explorer, Mozilla and Netscape at computer club.
• REXX, have written numerous REXX executes, and macros for the mainframe, OS/2, and Windows NT.  Some of the more generic ones have been included on these pages refer to REXX macros and clists for examples.  I currently do not have access to a mainframe nor to OS/2 so updates and additions across each platform may cease.    
• SAS, installed SAS on the mainframe and made limited use of it in the systems programming area. 
• SCRIPT/VS, DCF, GML, have made extensive use of SCRIPT/VS for Standard Operating Procedures Manuals (SOP), Company Telephone Directories, and the printing of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) across various printer platforms.   Also for printing United Fund forms for all employees.   The content of most of this site was originally done with Script/VS, the pages for each macro described in An Introduction to David McRitchie's Clists /REXX Macros/ Executes , look a lot better when printed with Advanced Printer Function (AFP), or PostScript printers.   Created macros to help build an index.  No document of any size should be without an index.    HTML does not provide this facility. 
  
• Corel Draw, have used it to create/improve logos for use on mainframe, and client-server printing which were used in MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) processing. 
• HiJaak, used it to create/improve logos for use on mainframe and client-server printing. 
• Visual Basic, not much experience though I wrote a couple of application designed to highlight differences between files (such as .INI) for users who did not have problems compared to users who had problems.   Invoked a canned comparison utility to highlight differences in the final compare.  Lots of experience in writing Excel VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).