In a similar vein - someone at my shop in the 80's discovered you could use TPUT to send messages to other terminals sans userid. Further, combined with an ability to read qsam files, one of which contained the text of a symptom dump, the resulting confusion from unsuspecting TSO users was quite entertaining.
----- Original Message ---- From: Gary Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:31:11 PM Subject: Re: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers Now THAT is funny... On Wed May 21 13:16 , Rob Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once wrote a >program called "IJKEFT01" whose sole purpose in life was to just ATTACH >IKJEFT01 *unless* it was the "target" userid in which case it also ATTACHed an >extra TCB that randomly generated strange abends at random intervals. > >Cue frantic hunting through manuals and head scratching of the affected user. > >Made me smile..... > > >Rob Scott >Rocket Software, Inc >275 Grove Street >Newton, MA 02466 >617-614-2305 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')">[EMAIL >PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe >Sent: 21 May 2008 18:04 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers > >Richards, Robert B. wrote: >> As someone already commented on Tech Target website, these practical >> jokes are neither practical nor a joke. >> > >Jokes or not, I was ROTFLMAO! And, based on the first comment posted, I guess >that means I should be locked up! :-D > >-- >Edward E Jaffe >Phoenix Software International, Inc >5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 >Los Angeles, CA 90045 >310-338-0400 x318 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
