CDC ... Txed? (i did CDC way back in '80. I had a lot of fun with their unusual JCL and Negative Zeroes.)
On 2018-11-19 21:02, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:46:43 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: > >> I ran into that type of debugging on a shared IBM 3278 with that switch >> set to show all caps. It probably took me 15 minutes to figure out why >> JES2 was telling me "DSN=" was invalid in the JCL I just modified. It >> looked fine on the screen, and of course I was 100% convinced JES2 was >> broken. >> > Nigh onto 40 years ago, I had a co-worker who preferred that setting. > He said it was "easier to read". But that view was prevalent: it was the > rationale for the Orator typeface. > > And he suffered the same consequence as you. SPF introduced an offsetting > breakage by making CAPS ON the default for new files. > > A CDC editor had a worse behavior. If I failed to heed a warning at startup > it converted my entire file to CAPS at SAVE. No other warning; no recovery. > > And once a VM admin pretending to help me with a problem made a change > to my EXEC; tested it; failed. He spotted the problem; quickly re-edited; > TOP; UPPER *; SAVE. Dammit! I complained to his manager. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
