Very early. Fairly new at the job COBOL programming. Compiler was updated and started dying. I went a couple weeks round and round with the guy who did the install, trying to get him to open the issue with IBM. We were kind of formal in those days and he didn't believe the young newcomer. I finally got him to let me see the installation options he'd used. One stood right out. There was a "tape management system' yes or no. He had no. I asked him what he thought CA-1 (well, then UCC-1) was......
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Edward Finnell > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2019 1:32 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Fwd: Case TS002648607 (PMR 76523,082,000) - Compiler abend > > I saw one as lab assistant. The bright young thing came tromping in 'the > eight's broken, I need it fixed'. Turns out she was right! The adder's carry > bit > wasn't propagating. 3+3=6, 3+4=7, 4+4=7? Whoa nelly call the CE. > > In a message dated 8/29/2019 3:16:16 PM Central Standard Time, > t...@tombrennansoftware.com writes: > And I'm sure you can guess *exactly* how many of those times the system > really turned out to be broken :) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
