O my. I was on a call with a bunch of customers a few years ago. One of them was having a very basic problem with a COBOL program calling our product. I explained that they needed to put the name of <something> into a variable that gets passed as the first parameter. Silence, then..."What's a variable?"
On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 5:31 AM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > C: My COBOL program got <error description> > M: What's in Register 14 > C: But COBOL doesn't use registers > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf > of Hank Oerlemans [000003c4d8bf55f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] > Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2023 10:28 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: I want to cry > > Customer : Could you please have a look and help us to fix the issue . > Customer log : IEA992I SLIP TRAP ID=S047 MATCHED. > > ME : > 1. Hire a sysprog > 2. RTFM > 3. Google Play and hit update > 4. Apple store and hit update > 5. Check calendar and mortgage and see when I can retire > 6. Tears welling up realising I can't actually say any of 1-4. > > ......... > > It's slow today down under..... > > haveagoodweegend. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
