Think of where the *IX systems are now. That's where MVS was 20+ years ago. Too many really sharp Systems Programmers dug into the source code and made what they thought were useful modifications. They worked great until there was an upgrade to that section of code. Since OCO the OS has been much more stable but the opportunity to learn the 'guts' has been diminished. New Systems Programmers will never have the same opportunity to dig deep that we had unless they do it in the *IX OSes where the source is still available. IBM lost a great source of debuggers when they went OCO.
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