Subject: Re: Healther checker documentation From: Jim Mulder <d10j...@us.ibm.com> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:42:22 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain
IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote on 05/16/2008 12:46:13 AM: > I was going to say "obviously you haven't read the Diagnosis: Tools > and Procedure book. It contains quite funny sentences at the start > of each chapter". Unfortunately, when I just looked, they're all > gone!!!! It is still in the old os/390 R10 books. > > Those were sentences like for standalone dump "Like a trip to the > dentist. . . you only go when you have to, and you know it's gonna hurt". > Or: "SVC dump is like a burglar alarm. . . . It lets you know > something's wrong and helps you pinpoint where it started." > "Component trace is like a Swiss Army Knife: a lot of little tools > built into one." > > Now who took that humour back out?!? I had something to do with that. My concern is that system programs are usually reading that book at a time when they are dealing with the gravity of some problem, and may not be in a mood to appreciate its opposite, levity. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
