On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 5:25 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote:
> Shane Ginnane wrote: > > >Junior sysprog was using a well-known monitor that showed a bunch of > "unused" shared storage. He decided we could use it, so decided to free it. > ... > > >... Still scratching our heads when afore-mentioned junior returned and > wanted to know what all the kerfuffle was .... > > > Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! > > Did you 'freed' that junior to the pavement and reclaimed his office table? > Telling on my own idiocy. My first year as trainee sysprog, on OS/VS1. I did an IEBCOPY compress on the running SYS1.LINKLIB. System went belly up. And it was _not_ a test system. It was in use as the dispatching system for the police force in the city of Ft. Worth, TX (A "big" city. Yes, I hear the NYC people laughing at me for calling it that). Luckily, we had an identical system on a 2nd box and I was able to copy the SYS1.LINKLIB on that system onto the other system, then reIPL. > > ;-D > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
