-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 4:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: USS misuse (was Re: Mainframe hacking)
>Ted >> Even IBM used USS ... >Sadly, some IBMers are as careless as some list participants. I DON'T think it's carelessness!n - Too busy driving to stop for gas! <SNIPPAGE> It either is, or they are at best, not competent (here is where I have to explain this: Not competent does not imply you can't be only that you need some training, Incompetent means you may have been but now definitely aren't). It is also a problem that some time after 1991, the IBM internal standards were apparently discarded (apparently with management blessing). There were specific naming standards, specific requirements for program directories (and their very specific formatting), etc. Even the keywords to be used for ETR/PMR and APAR/PTF are being sluffed, which is making it difficult to find HIPERs at times. A recent example: any one *directly* affected by the recent double writes within TCPIP. If you had searched using INCORROUT you came up empty. Yet that is what was happening - In Correct Output. This is but one formerly STANDARD keyword. The rules are changing w/o equivalent buy in or announcement of the changes. Rather like the non-mainframe platforms, the Whatever boxen (example of the Whatever is given by Shania Twain in That Don't Impress me). Regards, Steve Thompson -- Opinions expressed by this poster may not reflect those of poster's employer -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
