We used to have an exec that deleted all of the spool datasets older than 7
days old from our VM spool. I think once I accidently entered todays date,
instead of the date 7 days ago, and deleted everything. This was especially
bad, because at that time we had lots of spool files that were written to
the VM spool from MVS jobs. These were massaged, usually by execs by some
user, and then read back into processing the next day.
I have to say, my boss was very understanding and didn't yell too loudly at
me, but he did get a lot of heat about it. Someone rewrote the exec to
subtract 7 from the current date, so all we had to do was hit enter.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Peurifoy" <[email protected]>
For common replies/commands, this is true, but I think for unusual
situations that happen rarely, a confirmation can help.
A long time ago (late sixties) we had an operator reply COLD to
a HASP startup, he didn't understand what it meant. Our HASP
sysprog added a little code that checked for a reply of COLD,
and issued the following message:
There is a curse I'm told on those who wrongly reply COLD.
Their hair turns white, their eye's loose site, they grow
wrinkled and old. DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE?
We never had an inadvertent COLD start again.
--
Richard
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