On 27 Jul 2010 14:17:48 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:42:57 -0400, Kirk Talman wrote: > >>> Or imagine my astonished dismay the first time I allocated a member with >>DISP=(OLD,DELETE) and watched the entire PDS vanish. >> >>In the early 1970s, at a bank using MVT on 370/155, soon after DOS-OS >>conversion, all procs were stored in SYS1.PROCLIB. Excessively neat >>programmer deleted a member using that technique. System was unbootable. >> >>When the system came back after the sysgen (no backup res pack!), an >>APPL.PROCLIB was created and all SYS1 datasets were password protected. >>Ops was not given the password. >> >>So in 40 yrs, the same design flaw has bit how many people/shops? >> >But none of those should perceive a problem, since the behavior >is documented.
Just because a stupid design is documented doesn't make it any less stupid. Clark Morris > >-- gil > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
