I'm "lucky" because my company doesn't have the money to get much software. And my manager is ex-CA (via UCCEL); knows many people in development; and so knows what to avoid. Unless directed to my upper management. Which does not happen much with z/OS because IT management is PC oriented almost to the exclusion of even realizing that z/OS exists. Some pluses and many minuses to that last.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 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® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. –The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, 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 Mark Zelden > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 10:02 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Makes me love most of my z/OS software vendors. > <snip> > > Lucky you! It takes me at least 2 hands to count the times an ISV > product has crashed a system I've worked on. And these were supported > versions. Things like PSA overlays, UCB overlays etc. Of course over > the years IBM has added lots of code and features to repair critical > control blocks and there are captured > UCBs etc., so it less frequent. None of these comments include IBM's > own > bugs that have crashed systems. > > Regards, > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
