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And I've had a few doozies - one program should have had an LA instruction that got keypunched as an LH; the error was discovered fourteen years later when IBM changed a control block around so the referenced field wound up on an odd boundary.
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This one took me 8 months to isolate:

       B      12(,R15)                                  X'47F0F00C'
       DC   AL1(7),CL8'IEFUJV'               X'07C9C5C6E4D1E54040'

Ended up doing a STH of R4 at what appeared to be a totally random address. Only failed when the clobbered storage was executed. :-)

Our systems staff had its own sandbox to play, and test, all changes, but that guy's "under-confidence" was such that he wouldn't even test on our sandbox.

Rick

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