.. and she didn't have your experience, your salary or your brain .. bully
for you Scott!
Graham Hobbs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Ford" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 8:12 PM
Subject: Re: File Processing
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.
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-----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
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