They should have realized that the PDS directory 8-character limitation was too restrictive when they could not catalog it as IEFSR1515BR14.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Packer Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 9:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IEFBR14 Bill wrote: > The first APAR on IEFBR14 of which I am aware occurred in the late > 1960s in the very early days of OS/360. The error was that the > program was not setting the return code to zero. I do not remember > the exact date of the APAR, its fix, release number, etc. I would > bet that Shmuel Metz does, though. :-) > > Bill Fairchild > Rocket Software I'd guess* that at the time there was a philosophical debate on whether iefBR14 was still the right name for the resulting program. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
