In a message dated 12/28/2007 10:39:46 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >You write a nice little utility to generate a report by retrieving data from the Support Processor using the Diagnose instruction. You leave the company, who later installs a new processor. Your report program gets run and guess what, the machine suffers a catastrophic failure and is down for hours while the hardware engineer is trying to get the machine back up and to find out what happened. The machine comes back up, your report program automatically restarts, and boom!, down again. It is not a pretty scenario.
>The lawyers would have a field day, going after IBM, and more than likely, going after you. This happened once with my buggy program. I hosed CSA, the system crashed, and the operator reIPLed and warm started JES2 which immediately reran my job. Boom - one more crash. I knew immediately after the first crash what to do to fix my bug, but I couldn't fix it until the system stopped autocrashing due to the JES2 initialization parameter to restart all jobs that were running upon warm start. I managed to intervene before the third crash. Your scenario has more blameworthy actions than you described: (1) the programmer whose program uses an interface that is not guaranteed to remain constant; (2) the programmer's (probable) lack of properly documenting his program's dangerous nature; (3) management's allowing such a program to be installed in production while the programmer was still employed; (4) management's not doing a thorough job of review and turnover of that programmer's programs when he left employment; and (5) setting a JES2 initialization parameter that guarantees an infinite loop of crashes as well as production speedup when no wayward program crashed the system (which is usually the case). There is plenty of blame to be shared and lawyered against, although I seriously doubt that management would let the lawyers go after management. Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
