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We finally agree on something. One of the many standards we implemented
at a company I worked for was that a program could *NOT* use display
upon console for *ANYTHING*. The traffic on the console was to great
for any operator to notice anything from a program. Or a request from a
program to get input from an operator. Perhaps in the 1400 era that was
permissible but in a multiprogramming environment it is ridiculous to
expect an operator to reply to a program there could be over 100+
programs running at any given instant and the operator is too busy to
care what program is asking for.When MVS first came out 2.0 there were
in fact many D23 abends (commtask) and any program that had a WTOR
outstanding took the abend.Nowdays it is less common for a D23 but the
concept is the same NO WTOR's. Any program that does is cancelled and a
ticket written up on it.
Just ask any poor operator and I think you will get the same response.
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I will PARTIALLY agree with Ed. We took the Write-to-Programmer route
code off all our consoles, and allowed our programmers to use that
mechanism to get something inserted into SYSLOG, but still, management
and Operations had to check off on the message and the reason for it
being in SYSLOG. Some of our programs wrote error counts to the log.
Thanks to Dept. of Commerce rules, our SYSLOGs were considered legal
documents and were preserved on tape for 10 years. (Things can get
SERIOUSLY sticky when you lose track of several million dollars of
someone else's money in a matter of minutes!)
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