The last time I looked linklib, and linklist, were part of MVS. Most of the auditors I know would consider an obsolete 3705 assembler to be a finding and put it in an audit report. Removing obsolete modules is part of systems management. Sometimes the removal can have odd or funny results.
Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258-8487 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: dennis.ro...@lmco.com All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Rick Fochtman > Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 3:53 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Old assembler modules. > > ---------------------------------------<snip>------------------------- > -- > ------------ > > >Here is a funny one for you. We were doing house cleaning and found > >the > 3705 assembler modules in linklib. > >We were just going to delete them but we thought we should go through > change control to CYA. > >AFter the weekend we get a call from an irate user asking what > >happened > to the assembler. We told him we deleted the obsolete 3705 assembler > and he started yelling. I was able to get him to calm down and asked > to see his source. After a quick preview we didn't see anything > preventing him from using the latest assembler and I gave him the > procs needed etc he was still irate but I assured him this would run a > lot faster. He still wasn't happy but I suggested he try it. The next > day he called up and was ecstatic and said his assemblies were done in > 1 minute what used to take 20. He was so happy and I asked him to go > through anything else that might be needing to update. He found 5 (IIRC) jobs. > >Ended up he called my boss and thanks me a lot so I got some brownie > points from the user. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------<unsnip>-------------------------- > -- > --------------- > I fail to understand how 3705 Assembler routines/modules could > possibly be relevant to this discussion. The 3705/3745 PoPS are > radically different from any IBM "mainframe" hardware of the last 40 years. > > Rick ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
