On Aug 7, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
I love it .....I had a COBOL programmer bet me that our DOS/VSE
system on our 4381 was causing her abend. She bet me a dinner, well
I collected, brought her in and did a instruction trace pointed
right to her code....
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
On Aug 7, 2012, at 3:27 PM, "McKown, John"
<john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote:
Oh, wow. We must have had the same person working in the late
1970s at my first job. "System abend is a System problem, FIX IT!"
was his first statement on an S0C7. I explained that "System
abend" meant "system detected problem". And I showed him how to
find the statement which abended in his COBOL listing. He went
away. And came back two days later with the same, unsolved,
problem. I threw him out. The people on the other side of the
print shop (next to my *office*, I had an office back then!) heard
me. The only thing I learned from the DI was how to "project".
We had DOS/VS at that time. The DOS person said that DOS would
occasionally kill his programs as well. With the words "USER
REQUESTED TERMINATION". The programmer screamed at the DOS person
to show him where in his COBOL, it said "PERFORM TERMINATION".
He finally left IT and went to work for the water department.
John:
It could have been one of my boss's in later life. He was a former
meter reader and his mental facilities worked well in that department.
Ed
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