On 16 Apr 2007 05:38:40 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >>>Instead, the application crashes reported as flaws are >>>actually by design. > >I just installed Microsofts new security system for home owners. If anyone >tries to break in, the house bursts into flames. :-)
Before all of carry on in our smugness, I have seen a number of applications with intentional abends and created more than one batch process with that. In the ones I did, it was because the problem was beyond the capability of the application to fix without human intervention and an abend was the way to force the data problem to be fixed. There are also a number of unreliable installation grown applications out there. Given that we let things die for out of space conditions, something which would baffle most Microsoft developers, I am not as critical of the approach of not digging the grave deeper when the user has bollixed the programming beyond redemption. Both the assembler and the COBOL compiler have such abends. > >Dave Salt >SimpList(tm) - The easiest, most powerful way to surf a mainframe! >http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
