On Thursday, 11/08/2007 at 10:27 EST, "Huegel, Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although I do think that sometimes they get a little case of 'If it ain't > broke, don't fix it' syndrome.
Well...there's a lot to be said for compatibility. Work with *IX apps for a few releases and see. Or even Windows, which has been known to *change shell keyboard shortcuts* when you apply patches. For we keyboard-intensive folks, that's really, really, really evil. And the VM team has made amazing strides (heh, I typed "strikes" -- Freudian?) in the last 25 years. ObAnecdote: back at UofW, we maintained 200+ CMS mods, about half of which were fixes to IBM bugs. I had a deal with our PSR (Paul Leckie of IBM Toronto) that I wouldn't call in more than 5 at a time. Those calls always went like this: "Hi, I'd like to open five problems." "FIVE???" "Well, I have about 100 more if you'd like..." "No, no, five is fine." But then, after weeks of discussion, 4.5 of the five (on average) would get closed without an APAR. At one point I found myself repeating over the phone, "ALL means ALL", when the then-Change Team refused to fix EITHER the code OR the doc. All of that's pretty unimaginable today. At worst, Chuckie would get in the act and the person arguing with IBM would simply stop posting to the list...forever... ;-) ...phsiii
