In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/30/2007
at 02:55 PM, "Patrick O'Keefe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>From MVS in the '80s, maybe? I thought it was an official IBM term
>but I can find no references to it so maybe it was a local term where I
>was working. Damage assentment Routine Dump? If it was an official
>term, what was it? An SVC dump?
DAR goes all the way back to OS/360; it stood for Damage Assessment and
Repair. Basically it was STAE exits and retry routines to prevent the
system from crashing. At the time SVC dumps could only go to system dump
data sets, not to SYSMDUMP.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
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
