From: "Ed Jaffe" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:49 AM
On 10/10/2017 2:49 AM, retired mainframer wrote:
Has your legal team considered the possibility of industrial sabotage? It would be pretty hard
to argue that this defective code was accidental.
It's funny. Someone joked about that just yesterday, wondering if this person was collecting two
salaries! LOL
I know he felt "shackled" by OPTABLE(YOP) and was always pushing for me to raise our hardware
support minimums. I wouldn't do so for the reasons I have already explained.
Honestly, I think he just really, Really, REALLY wanted to use TROT to generate a hex dump of
bytes instead of the "tried and true" UNPK/TR we use everywhere else throughout our code.
UNPK might ne OK for small areas, but TR without UNPK is far better.
I suspect he rationalized his subversion by saying to himself, "Oh, Ed's just being silly. Nobody
runs hardware like that anymore..." and, in doing so, once again raised his defiant
insubordination to the level of potentially jeopardizing our customers' businesses (and OURS!).
[Aside: You'd be surprised how old some hardware is in DR sites, even in very, very large
companies with massive budgets! And, nothing is worse than having mission critical software fail
in DR!]
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