On Sep 15, 2006, at 1:17 PM, Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
I don't know what date the Sterling acquisition refers to but in the
past couple of years I was still receiving maintenance in ZAP
format for
CA-1 5.2 (before it went out of support). Thankfully it was a very
small number of SYSMODs.
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A long time ago I supported syncsort. Approximately every week I got
at least one zap (vers and reps) along with instructions to use
PARM="IGNIDRDATA".
I was always careful coding the reps up. But once in a while I would
make the proverbial keystroke error. I ignbore their instructions to
use the parm and when the module ran out of IDR space I would relink
the module and rerun the zaps.
These zaps were at times a page in length so it was "easy" to make a
keystroke error.
I got into the mode of copying the module to a private library and
running the zap against the private library. During our mintenance
window I would then copy the library into production.
It was not easy to test the zaps because you were never quite sure
the testing tested out what was zapped. I suppose I could have zapped
in an 0C1 but it never seemed like it was a for sure thing to do.
Synsort TS was really good back then (I don't know currently) so it
was never really a crap shoot but worrisome nun-the-less.
When it came time to decide whether to go back to DFSORT that was the
tipping (the zaps) decider.
Ed
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