Paper?! For, e.g., SYSABEND, SYSUDUMP, on SPOOL you can at least do a search for, e.g., eyecatchers, key addresses. On paper a large dump is unmanageable.
When you're swamped is precisely when you need good tools. Not having PDS86 is bad; not having IPCS is intolerable. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Edward Gould <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2024 2:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What is the PDS command? > On Dec 27, 2023, at 4:57 AM, David Spiegel > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ed, > You and your programmer were not impressed?! > How can you not be impressed by the ability to add Directory Blocks (by > moving members out of the way), the ability to generate JCL to LinkEdit PDS > members, the ability to copy members (with ISPF Stats) or the ability to > recover deleted members (with selection criteria)? > (There are a lot more features.) > SMH. > > (I've been using the PDS Command Processor (File 182) for more than 40 years.) > > Regards, > David David: I was looking at it from a typical applications programmer POV as a every day utility. Most of the features (I thought) were sysprog type or maybe a senior level programmer. I1. I do not like trust programs from the CBTTAPE as I did not want to try and debug anything that I had not written and especially at 0 dark 30 . I was working at that time 100 hours a week and supporting people in thee Time zones and I wanted everything to go as smoothly as possible. The third times zone was western Europe and as friendly as they were they would pull out the daggers every now and then. The locals were semi (except for about 20)competentand we rarely heard a peep out of (except for the 20). My workload at the time included going through about 20 standalone dumps over a week and we did not have IPCS so every dump was on paper and went from 2 foot thick to 5 foot. I had my hands full . Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
