In a recent note, Edward E. Jaffe said: > Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:59:06 -0800 > > For some reason, I have a talent (misfortune?) for uncovering > nasty bugs that people at other shops do not. > I also. But I'll grant an idiosyncratic temperament: many customers on encountering such a bug will try alternatives until discovering on that works; use that, and be done with it.
I, contrariwise, even after discovering a circumvention, am more likely start a PMR on any of the approaches that I had initially believed would work. Even if the bugs aren't "nasty", but merely unsuccessful. Designers shouldn't waste programmers' time by providing many apparent alternatives of which only a few work. Case in point: with the innovation of BPAM support of HFS directories, I'm wont to report in PMR any facility that fails when an HFS directory is in a library concatenation of any facility that otherwise succeeds by using BPAM read. So far, DDLIST and IRXJCL SYSEXEC. It's my way of combatting the pervasive lack of orthogonality in z/OS design. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
