On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 09:44:43 -0600, McKown, John 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>But not all of them, of course.
>
>http://slashdot.org/topic/bi/a-gentle-rant-about-software-development-and-installers/
>
>This is the frustrations that one PC software developer had trying to install 
>Enterprise grade software (from SAP and Oracle). Only once have I had a vendor 
>product actually crash z/OS. And that was when trying to run a out of date 
>product which hooked into parts of z/OS on a new z/OS 1.12 system. 
>

Lucky you!  It takes me at least 2 hands to count the times an ISV product has
crashed a system I've worked on.  And these were supported versions.  Things
like PSA overlays, UCB overlays etc.  Of course over the years IBM has added
lots of code and features to repair critical control blocks and there are 
captured
UCBs etc., so it less frequent.   None of these comments include IBM's own
bugs that have crashed systems.

Regards,

Mark
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