Barry Merrill wrote: >... The challenge was accepted, and in short order, "Tim W." observed that >SYS1.NUCLEUS was not protected, so he scratched it. "Tim W." knew that once >the system is up, the dataset SYS1.NUCLEUS is not read again, so the SHARE >demonstration continued without flaw. It was later heard that IBM took the >SHARE MVS demonstration down at 11 p.m. to IPL for a customer benchmark; it >took until 3 a.m. for IBM to find a CE who could correctly decipher the wait >state code and explain that the IPLs kept failing because there was no >SYS1.NUCLEUS on the IPL volume.
Wow! Barry! That is one of the best war stories I read on IBM-MAIN! I really enjoyed your story, especially that big blue have a hard time to fix things! Now, DASD were probably not shared, how did that CE found out what the real problem was? Dumps? Inspecting Consoles/SYSLOG printouts? SAD? Ok, was there really any 'security'? I believe RACF was at its infancy at that time! ;-) Barry, do you have any documentation or link of this fun story? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
