On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:48:16 -0400, Rob Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... >Is there a need outside of debugging - maybe not - but does that invalidate the requirement? Funnily enough I considered raising a requirement for this very thing a few years back as I hate having to use reverse-engineered OCO control blocks, but I did not in the end because I could not see any way of convincing IBM of the real "business" benefit. >... Sometimes there are very unusual situations like a debugging tool so useful that IBM makes arrangements to "OEM" it, but finds that the tool uses unsupported interfaces. One part of IBM can't use the tool (without some major rewriting it wants to avoid) because another part of IBM didn't provide an official interface. So IBM avoids the whole problem by purchasing another vendor of tools. Now, that might be apocryphal, and NDAs prevent me from being more specific, but I suspect some readers of this list know the detals a lot better than I do. And no, I don't really think that IBM bought Candle just to get around rewriting a tool that used unsupported interfaces. In any case, useful tools will be written to display useful information whether or not supported interfaces are available to gather the data. And whether or not access to that information ever reaches the level of "need". And even IBM can suffer from the lack of those supported interfaces. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
