Guy, While your analysis is correct, that does not help the user that goes to a new release and suddenly has things blowing up. It is not always a case of a bad programmer, it can just be a case of forgetting to init and it never caused a problem in the past.
I agree with Ed that IBM should have made a bigger point about this change and the importance to the user to run with these debugging options turned on. ________________________________ Christopher Y. Blaicher Senior Software Developer Austin Development Lab phone: 512.340.6154 moble: 512.627.3803 fax: 512.340.6647 10431 Morado Circle Austin, TX 78759 BMC Software -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Guy Gardoit Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Interesting APAR OA27291 an undocumented change to GETMAIN Behavior in z/OS 1.10 On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) <dennis.ro...@lmco.com > wrote: > ...snip > > Bottom line - *it is the programmers responsibility initialize storage as > needed.* Changes in LE have bit us in C++ and PL/I code in this area in > the past. > ...snip For the life of me, I can't understand why this is such a surprise or problem. How many bad programmers were-there/are-there anyway? Sorry, but one who breaks the rules, end ups broken. Guy Gardoit z/OS Systems Programming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
