On 19 Jan 2007 06:44:35 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > >In a message dated 1/19/2007 7:58:44 A.M. Central Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >At SHARE I can remember distinctly the PUBs people swearing up and >down that they will document *ANY AND ALL* messages and codes. First >it started with TCP line and then spread to other OE type products >and now its a standing joke with COBOL. I am sure I left out a >product or two but the point is IBM has broken many promises and with > > > >>> >I don't remember which city, definitely West Coast early 80's and Chester >Hood(who was at Vandy Med Center) chaired the first SHARE OCO session. Maybe >the most vituperative SHARE session ever. Lots of yelling and pleading. After >we got back to work and were able to analyze it. Most of it depended on IBM >documenting interfaces to important modules and parameter calls. Most of our >IBM reps and SHARE reps agreed that would be the key. Never happened...so we >ponied up for Source distribution. > I think (my recollection of those events is not even 80 percent accurate) that they even said lack of documentation would be APARable. It might be interesting to pursue that avenue of attack.
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