In <0A25A0D191144ABB8F0649705ADAA187@DJVBN391>, on 11/11/2011
at 12:07 AM, Larry Chenevert <larrychenev...@verizon.net> said:
>The channel attached control units for those 3270's were notorious
>for generating interface control checks, which the operating systems
>of the era (OS/VS1, SVS, and MVS 3.8) were notorious for responding
>by entering disabled waits, resulting in many unscheduled outages,
>and this seemed to persist into the early 80's.
My recollection is that the CCH[1] could handle an ICC, although you
might lose the use of the devices.
>stuff one is not supposed to do in CICS
For good reason. You delay other transactions.
>and there was the need for GX20-1878-3.
Why? That's a summary; what information did it have that wasn't in the
regular manuals?
>Later, there were even people who told me and others closely
>involved "You can not do that using Verify." after I had already
>done it!
Well, at least it hadn't been in the manual for over a decade before
they told you that it couldn't be done.
[1] Well, for SVS and MVS; I don't have experience on OS/VS1.
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