Computerworld has someone under the name of Shark Tank that tells old mainframe experience stories.
Best, ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM coming soon * On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 7:19 PM Matt Hogstrom <m...@hogstrom.org> 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 > m...@hogstrom.org > +1-919-656-0564 > PGP Key: 0x90ECB270 > " > — Hogstrom > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
