Where can an application programmer who can barely spell SVC and PC get an understanding of what these are? (I know the SVC is supervisor call, but that's about it.) --
Frank Swarbrick Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO USA P: 303-235-1403 On 4/22/2011 at 4:56 PM, in message <snt113-w11ec58a5bdd48c549c593ec6...@phx.gbl>, john gilmore <john_w_gilm...@msn.com> wrote: > Gerhard Postpischl is of course quite right; trapdoors are necessary during > the development of much softwar; and they are useful for later > troubleshooting tooe. > > What has interested me more about this thread has been its preoccupation > with SVCs, which are at best obsolescent. There is nothing anyone can do > with an SVC that I cannot do, much less obtrusively, with a PC-based scheme. > > The focus of one poster's notionally savvy auditors on SVCs is yet another > example, if more be needed, of their preoccupation with safeguards against > yesterday's threats. (I am reminded of the DEW Line, which we Americans and > our Canadian Allies managed to get operational only a year or so after the > last of the Soviet Union's Badger bombers it was to protect us against had > been retired.) > > John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 >>> The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
