Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > Have a plan B. And C and D, etc... ;-D
> Document first, then keep your documentation up to date. And have someone else review it. And document all and every exits. (source, logic flow and installation methods) > Don't update the running system. Some people did that - at their own risk. And P L E A S E Don't INIT a live IPL volser! > Use vendor-provided mappings rather than rolling your own. Good suggestion, that is, if supplied mapping is available in the first place. Think OCO. (It took me a long time to obtain SMF mappings from IBM for a certain product for which I need to extract accounting info for usage analysis... So I ended used both version - vendor and my own.) >A few coding techniques for newbies to learn: > The use of UNPK and TR for converting to hexadecimal. And do that in RENT and REUS modes too. ;-) I wish to add something too: If you're having trouble debugging something, an extra pair(s) of eyes is a welcome investment. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
