>Certainly OCO marched on, with IBM and the world the poorer for it. I used to believe that until the memory of the number of usermods caused great delays in upgrades and the implementation of new function.
I remember one ex-IBMer becoming an Operations Manager just about a year befor XA was announced. He managed to get full sign-off authority for usermods (new and existing). He drove the SYSPROGs and their manager nuts. He almost never gave approval. Exits, or nothing, he said. Due to non-disclosure, he couldn't exactly tell them why. When XA came out, and was easily implemented at the shop, he was thanked by all involved. OCO may be akin to swatting a fly with a buick; it did solve that problem. Plus it did move IBM closer to protecting its IP. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
