I can attest to answering late nigh support and not remembering the answer I gave, only to sit in the morning production meeting and silently breathe a sigh of relief when it turned out I gave the correct answer.
Joe On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:47 AM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > Boy, not me. I didn't mind being awakened in the middle of the night, and > going in to the office to solve a problem at two in the morning usually > inspired me to put in an extra hour or two to work on something that I'd > had trouble figuring out during the day. But the poor operator usually had > to start over twice before I was awake enough to give a sensible answer. > Usually went like this: > > Me (trying to sound bright and alert, and probably failing): Good > morning... > > Betty: Hi, Bob, this is Betty. JTDA1001 went down with an oh-cee-seven in > step RTDA1040, and when I tried to restart it the job, it said - > > Me: Hold on. Hold on a sec. > > <Pause. Rub my face. Take a breath> > > Me: Ok, I'm awake now. What did you say? > > Betty laughs. Betty was always cheerful, which I suppose is a great > quality in someone who has to wake people up in the middle of the night for > her living. She repeats the intro, and starts on the sequel: What she > did, and why she had to call me. About 30 seconds into it, I become aware > that I haven't really been awake all this time. > > Me: Hold on. > > <Pause, again. Rub my face, again. Take another breath> > > Me: Ok, I think I'm really awake now. > > ...And she cheerfully starts over, and this time I can give her an > intelligent answer. I always ~thought~ I was awake, the first two times. > But I wasn't really. Sometimes she had to start over only once. Usually > twice. Never three times. > > Answering in my sleep? Not that I recall. > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* Sometimes you feel like a nut. After a day of working on a walnut > farm, you don't. -Mike Rowe of the TV show "Dirty Jobs" */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach > Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 08:39 > > Not a big story. I used to a have a sysprog in my team, that every time he > got a phone call at night, his wife was answering: perform an ipl. and you > know what? she had no ide bout mainframes and it always worked! > > --- On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 3:27 PM Mark Regan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > https://www.computerworld.com/article/3536588/memory-lane-monday-system-zzzzz.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
