On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
That is a GREAT story. > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
