Nope! -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 10:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Messages & Codes (was Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes")
[CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] Any message whose action is given as "contact your systems programmer" is just as bad. Has IBM finally gotten rid of all of those? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fmason.gmu.edu%2F~smetz3&data=02%7C01%7Callan.staller%40HCL.COM%7C5d87b6ba82604e73cc9308d80e18af0c%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C637274846480687573&sdata=u4EfCy7ayukIXREJxmztud3J1hWr7ajxrlmgk56KWpc%3D&reserved=0 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Timothy Sipples [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 4:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Messages & Codes (was Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes") This pair of error messages was a design mistake: OS/2 !! Sys01475 OS/2 !! Sys02027 That's a case of national language considerations run amok. That was the only pair of messages you saw on your screen when you formatted a diskette with OS/2, left the diskette in the primary drive, and rebooted the typical PC of that era (that didn't automatically try to boot from another device when there was a diskette in the primary drive). A diskette's boot sector doesn't have much room, so the designers had to be concise. They wanted to include at least one error code, and they did. But then instead of some portion of the planet not understanding what happened, very nearly the entire planet didn't understand what happened. :-) A better design would have used a global message like this: OS/2 SYS01475: Diskette in Drive! That's exactly the same number of characters, assuming the new line was one character. (If not, the colon could have been omitted.) Yes, "Diskette in Drive!" is technically English, but even so it would have been much more broadly, globally understood than mystery error codes. Even this one would have been better: OS/2 SYS01475 Unbootable Diskette Or: SYS01475: Data Diskette in Drive! Pretty much anything with the word "Diskette" (the term IBM preferred instead of "Floppy") would have given users a clue. Even this: OS/2 !! Sys01475 No Boot Diskette - - - - - - - - - - Timothy Sipples I.T. Architect Executive Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions IBM Z & LinuxONE - - - - - - - - - - E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ::DISCLAIMER:: ________________________________ The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
