Shmuel wrote: > IMHO, poor programming caused the outage, and your enterprise is far more at risk from that than it is from changes to undocumented interfaces. This scenario reminds me of the wailing and gnashing of teeth when programs that were working fine[1] under OS/360 started taking S0C4's under OS/VS1 and OS/VS2. Also, did you go to a new z/OS release without doing regression testing?
You are right that the root cause is bad programming. The vendor has since resolved the problem by rewriting their code. My main complaint was that the change was undocumented (so I spent a lot of time debugging it) not that GETMAIN changed. By the way, this happened during an ESP so, yes, we were doing regression testing. As far as source code, acquisitions don't always come with compliant programmers and source code. Jon Jon L. Veilleux veilleu...@aetna.com (860) 636-2683 This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
