Well, I also worked for Volvo. In Poland, Wrocław.
Hint: Volvo is swedish company, but they also have Renault trucks.
So, polish guys in Wrocław worked on swedish terminal emulator to
connect to french mainframes with french messages from some exits
(ridiculous IMHO). Polish guys called it
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Volvo Truck NA, for whom I worked 14 years, had a sort of DOS-101 class for
all our end users who were trying to figure out how to use the PCs newly on
their desks. Some of them actually seemed to pay attention, and cam
Volvo Truck NA, for whom I worked 14 years, had a sort of DOS-101 class for
all our end users who were trying to figure out how to use the PCs newly on
their desks. Some of them actually seemed to pay attention, and came back
to their cubicles understanding, for instance, what a root directory is
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> Well, if they come from a world where there is no messages manual, it may not
> occur to them to RTFM; that should be part of their initial training, but we
> all know how gen
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We used to run a product called SPIFFY by Isogon. It was bought by IBM and
renamed to Dataset Commander. I was actually told by the IBMer supporting the
product that th
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Well...
The only country I can imagine such approach is France.
I don't know Japan, so I cannot say.
However I met mainrame people from South America and they told me they
orderd a
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This pair of error messages was a design mistake:
OS/2 !! Sys014
W dniu 12.06.2020 o 12:59, Seymour J Metz pisze:
Well, if they come from a world where there is no messages manual, it may not
occur to them to RTFM; that should be part of their initial training, but we
all know how generous education budgets are these days.
I teach mainframe courses in
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Well, I wrote an article on my internal company blog, recently. It was
exactly about messages and codes.
People couldn't believe in some statements:
1. Every message has its own ID. Fortunately readers agreed that msg ID
is far better than "Oops! Something went wrong, try again later".
2. Every
Nope!
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This pair of error messages was a design mistake:
OS/2 !! Sys01475
OS/2 !!
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You have to understand national politics: "we won't buy this product; the
error messages are in English"
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This pair of error
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>This pair of error messages was a design mistake:
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>OS/2 !! Sys01475
>OS/2 !! Sys02027
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>That's a case of national language considerations run amok. ...
>
>A diskette's boot sector doesn't have much room, ...
>:-)
Please don't try to
This pair of error messages was a design mistake:
OS/2 !! Sys01475
OS/2 !! Sys02027
That's a case of national language considerations run amok. That was the
only pair of messages you saw on your screen when you formatted a diskette
with OS/2, left the diskette in the primary drive, and
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I take this example as merely an example. IBM & the software industry are
notoriously bad at getting these right.
At one end, you have "Oops, something went wrong." -- Windows
I take this example as merely an example. IBM & the software industry are
notoriously bad at getting these right.
At one end, you have "Oops, something went wrong." -- Windows 10 (and
yeah, the day I started using Windows 10).
At the other, IDC3009I. Sheesh.
Counter to those, the IMS message
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