I just had this conversation with someone. We used use source code and PLMs to 
understand the workings of a lot of the VM and MVS components.
Thats how a lot of us dinos evolved....lol
 
Scott J Ford
 




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From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 11:59:07 AM
Subject: Re: OCO, documentation, support from IBM-Main, etc. (was Re: Health 
Checker questions)

In <[email protected]>, on 12/11/2008
  at 02:13 PM, "Arthur T." <[email protected]> said:

>It's been a long time since IBM went OCO.  When they did, 
>didn't they promise better documentation to make up for the inability 
>to see what the programs are actually doing?

ObFlounder Yes, and they broke that promise before the ink was dry. In
some cases the documentation actually got worse.

>He deserves better than being talked down to.

He is rude enough that I don't see where he has a valid claim to curtesy.

-- 
    Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
    ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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