--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Rick Fochtman <[email protected]> wrote: From: Rick Fochtman <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Jes2 Converter abend d37 To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 6:00 PM
--------------------------------<snip>------------------------------ > It can always be worse. I once saw a vendor's SE give a 10- or 20-page > printout to a colleague of mine, who then sat at a keypunch for several hours > punching cards to match the VERIFY and ZAP hex data for the dozens of PTFs > described in said hand-out. This vendor apparently could not understand how > error-prone their preferred method of distributing maintenance was. I hate > to cast aspersions on any vendor, but the product might have been Eye Dee Emm > Ess before its owner was bought by CA. > -------------------SNIP------------------ A long time ago and far far away SYNCSORT did this. They sent you sheets of paper with zaps on them. I hope they have changed their ways since then.I know at least one time I screwed up a rep card and it caused a bit of production outage. We did not have a test system to put fixes on. The other item that went along with this "zap" issue was that the IDRDATA filled up and you had to relink the module (or ignidrdata on the amaspzap. I flatly refused to do this. What was just as "fun" was getting zaps over the phone. I caught a couple in my head (I liked to decode instructrions in my brain before creating the statement. I did this mostly out of habit so if it didn't make sense I would stop the reading and ask "why". The zaps were mostly 1 page or half a page. I do not remember anything going over a page. Syncsort was a great product but their maintenance (to me) was a PITA. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
