Long ago in a galaxy far away, there was a telephone company called Gong, Owned by Andromeda Telepath and Teleport. When a customer called in with an outage, they would go to the appropriate equipment, clean and reseat all of the contacts, and then test. They would then report back to the customer that they saw no sign of a problem.
In some cases the answer is timing. Certainly running GTF is going to introduce some delays, and there are equivalent effects in other areas. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, June 12, 2020 12:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes" I used to imagine the poor mechanics listening skeptically to a young clueless driver saying "I swear, mister, it was making this awful noise just a minute ago...!" I wouldn't have believed her either. Then I started in end-user support. I have implicitly believed those stories ever since. I tell some hapless users that their machines saw me coming and immediately cleaned up their act. I'm mostly kidding, but how else to explain it when it happens so often? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -Dorothy Nevill */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 13:30 My favorite is when someone is repeatedly getting an error, but when they call me over and without doing anything differently, the error magically goes away. I always said this was because the computer knows that I simply won't stand for such insubordination and it knows that I know where the off switch is. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
