Color me disbelieving. <snip> 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. </snip>
Not buying this, either: <snip> I have seen operators make errors but the OS has caught all of them and no harm was done. </snip> Jan's take is correct: outlawing mistakes does not mean they won't happen. (They're "mistakes," see.) It also doesn't do much for protecting your system integrity; nor does it signify any sort of effective management. Demanding 100% correctness from your people on pain of termination is not only futile and irrational, it can be counter-productive. I'm not saying that errors should be taken lightly, but expecting that you'll never see someone type "V 110E-1107,OFFLINE" instead of "V 1103-1107,OFFLINE" is not realistic. And simply advocating a sacrificial firing or two doesn't really help. It's awfully easy to be free with someone else's livelihood. Jon ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
