agree 100% and maybe I'm wandering off somewhat off topic, but;
what could go wrong bit me once when trying to help a teammate with a CA
product upgrade, his CA90's INIT routine was not updated with the new
version, so the product was not working, I found the issue and offered a
solution, only problem was attempting to REINIT a routine that was not
INITED caused reoccurring abends, I don't recall the exact abends, but
any address space creation or an address space termination caused an
abend to the point where nothing would start, IPL was the only solution :(
Carmen
On 1/20/2022 10:30 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Asking "what can possible go wrong?" is good. Believing that nothing can go
wrong is suicidal.
No doubt you will still miss some failure modes, but looking for them and
developing ways to deal with them will pay off in the long run.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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The premise is "what can possible go wrong" is the foundation for too many
wrongs ๐
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Matt Hogstrom
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I was working at an HMO in California and troubleshooting a networking problem
with the Network Control dudes. One of them thought that reseating a token
ring cable would fix the problem. As he was reaching down I formed the word
STOP when he deftly unplugged the cable and said, โThis will only take a
second.โ In which second he took down all the call center 3270โs across
Southern California. He said it was only a brief interruption.
Management disagreed and instituted the NO cable work except during a weekend
window with a change record even for troubleshooting.
Matt Hogstrom
PGP key 0F143BC1
On Jan 20, 2022, at 10:04, Richards, Robert B.
(CTR)<000001c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Reminds me of a true story where very randomly our terminals would go
offline and then come back after a minute or two. We would check the
controller and everything looked fine. Then one day, someone got a
Coke out of the soda machine while we were standing there trying to
figure things out. The controller lost power, however briefly, and
IML'd itself. The next day, the controller had been moved elsewhere.
๐
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