On Oct 22, 2007, at 7:05 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote:
Not being to tongue in cheek here.. but we used to fire the operator.
Ed
And what good does that do to the integrity of your systems???
Does that prevent anyone else from making a mistake?
Did you never make a typo in any of the commands you ever entered?
(If you
never did, then that means you never entered any...)
Jantje
There is a difference between typing an email and operator console.
If you cannot tell the difference then you shouldn't be an operator.
Operators (or sysprog or whomever) that have access to the systems
console MUST be aware of the fact and type accordingly.
I think in the 30+ years I have been around OS360 and MVS and z/os,
there has never been an operator mistake of a typo. If the operator
was in doubt he opened the IBM Book. If that didn't answer his (her)
question a call to his supervisor or friendly sysprog. There have
been times when commands weren't as well documented (or weren't at
all) that calls were made and we typed a instruction sheet for the
operator(s). Sorry, mistakes on the console (in some cases) could be
life threatening and therefore operators did NOT make any errors.
Ed
PS: I have seen operators make errors but the OS has caught all of
them and no harm was done.
pps: We had a case where the operator screwed up a IPL in the specify
system parameters reply and we had to IPL again. The operator had a
book (literally) thrown at him. The VP apologized but told him if he
made another mistake he was out of there. He didn't.
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