Hi Ed, Ah, nostalgia....!!!
Funny thing is, UADS was studied in depth by Jim Marshall in the early 90's. And although it's not too wise to use it (via the ACCOUNT command) to define working userids in a production system, but on a development system the knowledge of SYS1.UADS can come in very handy. See Jim's files: CBT Files 300 and 316. Very neat stuff. Jim also got me involved in studying SYS1.BRODCAST at that time, and that knowledge from him, helped get me started to develop my SYS1.BRODCAST package (free version on CBT File 247). Of course I didn't do it just for fun. Our installation was (effectively) a service bureau, in which we had to preserve one of our subsidiary data center's BRODCAST messages, and we couldn't just wipe BRODCAST with the SYNC command the way IBM "requires". We had to do it intelligently--not just burn down the barn and rebuild it, every time it got dirty. So I wrote programs to back SYS1.BRODCAST up, print messages from the backup copy, and do all kinds of other things to it, with the help of Vinh Vu.
So for me the UADS (and BRODCAST) experience is more recent than the 1970's. But MAN..!!! Do I enjoy listening to people who have EXPERIENCE..! Thanks, Ed. I remember those days too. Had some real fun, (adventures, and all-night IPL's).
All the best of everything to all of you....... Sincerely, Sam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
