Gerhard: Long long ago I was doing some SMF number crunching and at our installation IEFBR14 was the highest number of executions (for the month I was working on). I sent an memo to the IS VP indicating that IEFBR14 was doing more work than any of our production jobs. He was NOT amused (grin). He was trying to justify a larger CPU at the time and the President had gotten a hold of the memo and was attempting to quash the bigger CPU request. He (president) did not have a clue what IEFBR14 really did. I was ordered to write a follow up memo explaining what it did. Trying to dumb down (to the executive level) a memo explaining IEFBR14 was not easy! I think I went through 20 revisions until it was so meaningless it said nothing.The memo satisfied the everyone before it was sent up to the mountain top. I wish now I had kept a copy. Ed
--- On Sat, 11/20/10, Gerhard Adam <[email protected]> wrote: From: Gerhard Adam <[email protected]> Subject: Re: IEFBR14 To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, November 20, 2010, 11:37 AM Well with two instructions a single APAR would make the ratio 50%. If it only had one instruction at the time, it would have been 100%. So I'm sure the ratio is true, even if it is trivial. Adam -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2010 8:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IEFBR14 --- On Fri, 11/19/10, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: It is rumored that IEFBR14 has the highest ratio of APARs to bytes of code of any MVS program supplied by IBM. I don't know how to substantiate that. I'd be more confident that IEFBR14 has the highest ratio of lines of Friday LISTSERV discussion to lines of executable code. Just doing my part, gil Gil: The only APAR that I can ever remember IEFBR14 was zeroing out the return code in reg 15. I know I was one of those people who asked for tyhe APAR and that was a *LONG TIME AGO*. I am talking late 70's or early 80's. I know at one time there was "talk" about having an Eye catcher in the "module" but I do not recall ever hearing where that ended up.Personally I think its a waste of time as we are talking 2 instrctions. ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
