> (BTW creative misuse of the TSO "TERMINAL" and "PROFILE" commands was
> always good for laughs if you found someone's line-mode TSO session
> unguarded.  Sort of like remapping someone's 3270 emulator today.)
>
Speaking of remapping, when I was a junior programmer I was loaned out
to another project for half a day.  The PL didn't want to bother
setting up my RACF access for such a short assignment, so he just gave
me his password (which was against the rules, even in those days) and
let me use his TSO userid.

The PL had PFK10 set up as CANCEL.  This screwed me up because my own
userid had PFK10 set up as SAVE.  After losing several rounds of
changes by hitting CANCEL when I meant SAVE, I changed the PL's PFK10
setting to match the one I was accustomed to.

This would have been fine except that I forgot to change it back again
when I finished using his userid.

I heard some colourful language the next day when the PL SAVE'd some
changes he'd meant to CANCEL.  :-)

He couldn't very well report me to Security, since he shouldn't have
let me use his userid in the first place.   :-)

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