>Management would like all destructive commands to have a WTOR which the operator would be asked "Do you really want to execute this command" and provide the opportunity to reply "NO" to abort the command.
I worked for a Beta shop of MDF (Amdahl's partioning) in the early 1980's. We had issues regarding there was no prompt to ask the operator, when restarting a domain, "are you sure". So, we asked Amdahl to put one in. They ended up taking it back out. The reason: Once an operator had been committed to taking the domain down they were conditioned to automatically reply YES to the prompt. Changing the sequence only changes the responses, but the conditioning is still there. 1. Amdahl removed the prompt. 2. Once somebody has made up their mind, you can't do anything about it. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
