To the nearest power of 10, how many different ways can you make a mistake. How many of these are you willing to pay for the developer to handle? How many other of your desired updates are you willing to put on hold while he does?
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 1:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: IEC020I from SMP/E I know what I did wrong. I inadvertently (well, I was testing a change to an ISPF edit macro) submitted a job with an SMP/E APPLY step with an instream SMPCNTL with RECFM=VB. It's easy to suspect that SMP/E contains a DCB with a hardcoded RECFM=FB. <snip> This tells me hardly anything about what was wrong. Would a SYNADAF have returned a buffer with more information? Can a customer reasonably expect that a developer would have coded the SYNADAF and displayed the reply in SMPOUT, job log, or elsewhere. I don't think the right answer is that if I make a mistake I should be prepared for an inexplicable outcome. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
