On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 07:43:27 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
>
>Now, 'LOOKAT' reminds me of that song: 'Maaaaaa, he is LOOKING at
>meeeeeeeeeee!'
>
>Who is that rockstar who cried out that song? Just curious...
>
Rockstar!? I can make you feel old:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma!_He's_Making_Eyes_at_Me
On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 04:51:39 -0500, David Cole wrote:
>LOOKAT is (was?) an IBM web page that could be used to look up doc
>for IBM generated messages. Just give it the message number, and it
>would give you the doc.
>
>The page was "www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/lookat/", but
>just now I tried going there and got the IBM equivalent of a 404! No
>explanation, no redirect. Just gone. [How very rude.]
>
>I know that IBM said a couple of years ago that they were not going
>to add new messages to LOOKAT anymore, but at the same time, they
>also said that LOOKAT would continue to be available for looking up
>the messages that were already there...
>
A while (depending on how old you feel) back, the developer who
claimed credit (well deserved) for LOOKAT posted here of its
stabilization and recommended alternative. One could nearly read
between the lines, "They made me say that."
>So... is it truly gone?
>
>If so, have they replaced it with anything?
>
IIRC, they said, "GIYF." They did relax restrictions on spiders.
>Inquiring minds want to know...
-- gil
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