Far too many times have I come across readers and writers (and not just IBMers) that do not understand words in a technical manual like ALL, EVERY, NONE, FIRST, LAST, AND, OR, NEITHER, EITHER, etc. need precise definitions and usages otherwise you have a novel and not reference manual.
Don > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of zMan > Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 10:05 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Me? (was: SAVE macro, I think) > > On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> > wrote: > > > And I have known IBM support to reply to my minimal test > > case similarly to, "Why do you need this program to work? > > It appears to do nothing useful." > > > > Seriously? At that point, I'd probably send them a 10,000-line module and > say "Here, try this..." > > Sheesh. That sounds like the IBM of old, when they'd do anything to avoid > fixing bugs (I remember once saying "'ALL' means 'ALL', damnit!" to a Level > 2 rep, who was arguing that the documentation didn't mean that something > applied to all cases, even though it said it did...). > -- > zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
