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https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/ Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&[email protected] ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, June 25th, 2021 at 12:19 PM, Matt Hogstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > I work for Broadcom (my e-mail doesn’t reflect that because I am not defined > by my e-mail address). > > I spent the first 20 years of my career as a sysprog at a few large > companies, and the last few on building tech for the mainframe (at IBM, > Broadcom, ..) I recall so many stories about how things went sideways and I > was called at 2 in the morning or interrupted at dinner to solve a production > problem. Some of these stories are one-offs and others are lessons for the > future. Personally, over a beer these stories are interesting and we can > compare the impacts and how we solved them. Being transparent, I recall an > unscheduled change to the CESN panel to add an auto skip to the end of the > “Password Field” to the “New Password Field” and ended up causing users to > end up revoking their user IDs because of the change in behavior of the > panel. Yes, I was twenty something, there was no UX team and it just made > good technical sense. Result, a massive fail. > > I share that story because over a beer its a good laugh 30 years later. > > Thoughts on being able to share stories about issues / failures (hopefully > not like mine which was self imposed) to help others see issues and take > action to help build the next generation of Sysprogs? I’d love to share my > more esoteric issues like unable to allocate a dataset because of a hashing > problem with a VTOC IX caused by a batch job creating crappy data set names. > > Anyone know of a forum or a way to capture the knowledge before we lose it ? > > Thoughts ? > > Matt Hogstrom > > [email protected] > > +1-919-656-0564 > > PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 > > " > > — Hogstrom > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
