In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/21/2006
at 09:00 AM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I suspect this is one of those classic MVS stories. When the gurus of
>the sixties designed QSAM, the theory was that after a DCB ABEND the
>program went away, so it didn't matter what state anything was left
>in. Then, some other guru thought up ABEND recovery ...
No. The DCB ABEND exit was an afterthought. I believe that it was
somewhere between R17 and R20.
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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.
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