It is worse than that. If you set up 'automatic update' then you may not even be aware that update is happening. I think that this illustrates the difference between the windoze mentality and the mainframe mentality ... The mainframe systems programmer generally comes to accept the (paraphrased) words of the 'hippocratic oath': First, do no harm ... . I think this also relates to an earlier thread about the caution with which mainframe folks approach new experiments (vs seat-of-the-pants windoze approach).
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:58:10 -0500- From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tim_Henness?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Need Urgent Help, Please On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:06:48 -0700, Gibney, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As always, you're playing with fire if APPLYING to the live system >datasets. > You mean like Windoze does? Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:18:37 -0500 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tom_Schmidt?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Need Urgent Help, Please On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:58:10 -0500, Tim Henness wrote: >On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:06:48 -0700, Gibney, Dave wrote: > >>As always, you're playing with fire if APPLYING to the live system >>datasets. > >You mean like Windoze does? Exactly!! Like Windoze *did* to my formerly working PC at home, in fact. (Now I get to reinstall since it won't boot due to the damage Windoze did to its SYSTEM/CONFIG directory.) It is a baad idea on pretty much any system that you need. -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
