I had something similar; my boss asked IBM if he could quote them that they weren't interested in fixing bugs until they caused an outage or a security breach; they told him they'd rather fix it ;-)
However, the last time that I reported a security breach, they didn't ask whether it had caused a problem; they created an APAR and built a corrective PTF. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 6:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: bpxwdyn("INFO DD(UFSOUT) INRTPATH(dir)") truncates directory names containing spaces On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 22:37:32 +0100, R.S. wrote: >While it's interesting issue, ...wouldn't it be practical to avoid >spaces in pathname? >My€0.02 > Like any circumvention, it mqy be practical, but the underlying defect should be fixed. It's socially responsible to report such problems to spare one's peers the cost of re-encountering them. (I was asked by IBM support on one occasion, "Do you need this to work, or were you 'just testing'?") -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
