>There's a myriad of messages and codes to try an tell a user exacly what a 
>ploblem is,

Key word "TRY"!
The one I hate is 'consult your system programmer'!
I am my system programmer!


>but so many programmers today aren't willing to do the research; even looking 
>up a message in the standard Messages and Codes manuals has become too much 
>work.

BULL!
It's easy to look up; difficult to understand.
LOOKAT/QREF make looking up easy!



>JCL? Yes, it's a bit obscure at times, until you understand what it means. 

What exactly does this mean?
Obscure is the problem!

  
Yaw tee pucketty!
Rum ting clue!
Ni! Ni! Ni!
Arrooo!  

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