On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:52:02 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >+1 >I would say that sometimes right after a feature comes out there is a >presentation at SHARE, e.g., "How to use the new PC-ss facility." That is not >optimal if your first need to use PC-ss comes five or ten years after it first >is available. Some SHARE presentations are available online; some are not. >Some stand alone pretty well without the speaker's words; some do not. > >ISVs have their plates full just like IBM. We have even less incentive than >IBM to volunteer manpower to create HOWTO documentation, so I don't see it >happening that way. > FAQ? Wiki? (I know of neither. Perhaps Planet MVS?)
>What business justification for IBM? Little now. But good documentation >examples should have been part of the budget when the facility was originally >implemented. >-----Original Message----- >From: Farley, Peter x23353 >Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 10:14 AM > >Not jumping on Ed Jaffe or Peter Relson or any of the other thoughtful and >helpful responders in this email chain, but it still rankles me that there are >no good examples anywhere (not at IBM and not at CBT) for programmers to >review that show exactly how to set up and use "SRB to the other address space >and PC-ss back to the requesting address space" or any similarly sophisticated >system-level application coding technique. > >Why is system-level application coding made an obscure mystery to which only >IBM and (some) ISV's have access? Good examples that show how to "do the >right thing" would avoid an awful lot of dangerous experimentation. "Security >through obscurity" is, I think all here would agree. NOT a good thing. > Are you thinking of GUPI or non-GUPI interfaces? Peter R. largely, prudently avoids discussing the latter. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
