Thank you for this -- suspicions confirmed. I am reminded of doing support in the late 80s/early 90s. LUGA calls and has an abend in TPX. Guy has got the psw/registers declassified and is faxing them to me. He will get any page of the dump declassified I need or he can answer questions over the phone.
He asks why we don't have an "official representative". They get full clearance. When dump occurs they fly to wherever, read the dump and fly home. I asked, but management wouldn't bite. p.s.don't remember if new fix or not but registers were enough to identify fix. now squatty box apps produce 30+ line module trace and obscure message. but the message box is very - oh so - pretty. IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 11/20/2009 01:13:00 PM: ... B. The intelligence-community agencies do not operate like this. They have an infinitely deep budget, the amount of which is a closely guarded national secret. They always get the very latest, greatest, biggest, and fastest of everything. Then they set their own expert employees loose on the equipment to try to make it even faster or better in some way. They have acres and acres of such equipment in underground data centers that almost no one knows about. All the top management of all the big vendors know all this, and have internal skunkworks departments that handle all the classified RFPs, bids, etc. Nothing is ever divulged publicly about anything, let alone published in the CBD. No law suits are allowed, as this would cause the LUGA [Large Unnamed Government Agency] to suffer a delay in using the newest latest and greatest stuff, and if there is any delay, then the terrorists win. Bill Fairchild ----------------------------------------- The information contained in this communication (including any attachments hereto) is confidential and is intended solely for the personal and confidential use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, copying, or unauthorized use of this information, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. Thank you ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
