>>Gone are the days of cowboy sysprogs. Did they ever exist? I certainly never changed things without understanding the ramifications
I remember when OCO first came out, and I was working for the Ontario Ministry of Government Services. We had an 'old-style' curmudgeon of a SYSPROG who lived and breathed HEX. He could peak at core and interpret the assembler instrtuctions on the fly. We had a ZAP that he had to re-apply at every upgrade. When we were OCO (under XA), they changed an off-set. He went reading the memory dumps and found (so he thought) the new location. He applied it (blind in my mind), three times -- three IPL's during prime-time. And, he finally got it right. He kept his job (that time), because nobody could hold a candle to him. (Un)fortunately, his arrogance (I'm a SYSPROG, and I know everything) caught him a few years later. But, he was definitely a cowboy (boy howdy). - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
