Oh, wow. We must have had the same person working in the late 1970s at my first job. "System abend is a System problem, FIX IT!" was his first statement on an S0C7. I explained that "System abend" meant "system detected problem". And I showed him how to find the statement which abended in his COBOL listing. He went away. And came back two days later with the same, unsolved, problem. I threw him out. The people on the other side of the print shop (next to my *office*, I had an office back then!) heard me. The only thing I learned from the DI was how to "project".
We had DOS/VS at that time. The DOS person said that DOS would occasionally kill his programs as well. With the words "USER REQUESTED TERMINATION". The programmer screamed at the DOS person to show him where in his COBOL, it said "PERFORM TERMINATION". He finally left IT and went to work for the water department. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Gould > Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 2:18 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: File Processing > > Hal: > > A long time ago (when MVS first came out) a programmer got an S0C7 > and brought it to us as it was a system abend for it was "our" > problem. I pointed out while picking up the phone to his boss's boss > and telling them both to read the FM and to get the F out of there. > His boss had a few choice words and he only came down once again to > gripe about some issue and we told (again) to RTFM about > another user > problem. He subsequently left and got aa high paying consultants > job. We had a laugh over that. > > Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
