On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:21:27 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >No. The original design of OS/360 was that all programs were subroutines. >A program written to be called as a jobstep task could also be called via >LINK or ATTACH from another program. It was never designed for programs to >assume that they were jobstep tasks, although IBM may have written code[1] >that assumed that. > I once encountered an IBM program (I forget which) which deliberately failed if invoked in a multistep job or not as a jobstep task.
>[1] And George Mealy may have been alluding to such code, in part, > when he coined his pointed phrase. > Is that what I know and often cite as "Conway's Law"? And can anyone help me with "ObCamelDriver"? I find, "The camel driver has his plans -- and the camel has his." But I'm not sure how it's relevant. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
