Those were the days.

Regards, 
Richard Schuh 

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Greenberg
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:43 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Operator Console
> 
> On: Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 08:42:37AM -0400,Alan Altmark Wrote:
> 
> } On Monday, 07/20/2009 at 05:38 EDT, Ivan Warren 
> <[email protected]> } wrote:
> } > (Geez.. I wish we still had the source code for all of 
> this so we could } > fix it ourselves !) } } Why do you say 
> that?  The z/VM Restricted Source feature, described in Ch. 
> } 2 of the z/VM Program Directory, contains the source for 
> VARY, ENABLE, } DISABLE, XAUTOLOG, FORCE, and LOGON. 
> 
> I don't know how far back Ivan goes.  I myself go back almost 
> as far as Sir Lynn and look back fondly on the days I would 
> discover something wrong, call it in to IBM and find no fix 
> available yet,  sit down with the source (which was right 
> there), find the bug, fix it and reassemble, test and pass 
> the fix to IBM as a suggestion, and have the exact fix come 
> back a PUT or two later.
> 
> Dream on.....
> 
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