In <[email protected]>, on 11/20/2010
at 03:14 AM, john gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>Those that are egregiously incorrect are usually corrected when their
>deficiencies are brought to IBM's attention, but thery are not
>common.
What *is* common are messages that:
* Are way too cryptic
* Have boilerplate text without the variables needed to
actually diagnose the problem.
This is complicated by documentation that refers the reader to the
explanation of a different message, or even to a different manual, for
explanations of return codes and reason codes. IBM has tools like
DAIRFAIL and bpxmtext; why can't they consistently use them to produce
more helpful messages?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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