I remember going to a customer to discuss a deep technical problem. Before they let us into the inner sanctum were given a dump and were asked "what's the problem?" My colleague looked at it and said there is a program check at this address, and this is fixed in ptf uy.... " come on in you've passed" they said . They said this weeded out non technical people
On Tue, Sep 5, 2023, 23:32 Bernd Oppolzer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > this reminds me of another story ... > > some day my customer (a large insurance company here in Germany) asked > me to talk with their IBM rep, > because we had a severe problem with one of the DB2 components which I > discovered, and I was asked to > have IBM fix it or otherwise provide a solution of my own (it was in the > DB2 interface for Batch - CAF - IIRC, > and it used 5 % of the overall CPU in some of our IMS regions simply by > walking sequentially through > some MVS control blocks chains) > > So I called the IBM rep, and the first thing he asked me was: "are you a > systems programmer"? > and, although I wasn't sure at that time what that means, I said: "yes, > but why do you want to know?", > and he said: "well, if not, we're not gonna talk with you" > > :-) > > Kind regards > > Bernd > > > Am 04.09.2023 um 16:23 schrieb Peter Sylvester: > > Namen sind Schall und Rauch, > > > > Some parts of the discussion reminds me to Lewis Carroll, Through the > > looking glass. > > > > It reminds me to the citation that that I made in ibmmail descript > > > > https://www.funet.fi/pub/doc/netinfo/EARN/ (There are some other > > gems in that directory). > > > > "song" = "what is your profession." > > > > > > Peter Sylvester > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
