Never accept what? The advice to never accept an APAR or USERMOD is sound. The advice never to accept a PTF - it's not my dog.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Allan Staller <allan.stal...@hcl.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 8:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: Old School Maintenance Philosophy -- Never ACCEPT? "never accept" because there might be "bad" maintenance in the stream. If you have been running on the "new maintenance" for xx months, what can be "bad"? I agree w/Tom Conley. It was wrong then (even if well intended). It is still wrong. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 5:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Old School Maintenance Philosophy -- Never ACCEPT? On 5/22/2018 1:49 PM, Allan Staller wrote: > I haven't used that philosophy in 30+ years. What was the rationale 30+ years ago? Do you remember why things were being done that way? Thanks, -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. 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