This might be fun on a Friday!
The best\non-useful error message I have ever seen was on an old Data General RDOS Mini-Computer (remember those?)
A "system level" violation came back and said:
>Error: You Can't Do That
BMC Remedy is full of these and they need to at least point you to an object or a line in the object. But, it's cheaper to just say, "You can't do that." (Unrecognized server information)
Gordon
From: "LJ LongWing" <lj.longw...@gmail.com>
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 8:14:41 AM
Subject: Re: A bit of Friday humour in BMC's Error messages
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What code is giving this?
**_ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_I just got the following errors with the 8.1 API against an 8.1 server (VERSION = 8.1.00 201301251157)
ARGetServerInfo ==> 2, 123, Unrecognized server information tag 358
ARGetServerInfo ==> 2, 123, Unrecognized server information tag 357
ARGetServerInfo ==> 2, 123, Unrecognized server information tag 356
ARGetServerInfo ==> 2, 123, Unrecognized server information tag 355
ARGetServerInfo ==> 2, 123, Unrecognized server information tag 354
These are the new ones for 8.1. The humour comes from the 7.6.04 Error Messages Guide:
123
Unrecognized server information tag.
Error
You specified a code for server information that was not recognized. Verify that the #define
statements in the include file ar.h have a list of all valid codes that can be specified.
Yup. Verified. The 8.1 ar.h does not have a list of valid codes J
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