I love it .....I had a COBOL programmer bet me that our DOS/VSE system on our 4381 was causing her abend. She bet me a dinner, well I collected, brought her in and did a instruction trace pointed right to her code....
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 7, 2012, at 3:27 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
