My favorite is a marketing guy I was supporting. He called for my help with some problem that had occurred - I don't remember what exactly, probably with a DYL-280II program that he'd written with my help - and, as always, I asked him what the error message had said. "Oh, it said some damn thing" he retorted.
I think he was laughing at himself as he said it, but he said it. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* My aunt has rather selfishly suspended her production of chocolate cake because of the whole "broken hip" thing, leaving me to try to find a worthwhile substitute....I purchased a box with a picture of a cake on it, but inside were all these so-called "ingredients" that, once I'd mixed them and baked them and put out the flames, tasted suspiciously like one of my mother's chocolate hockey pucks. -Bruce Cameron */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 11:26 ...as a guy who has been responsible for product management and a support desk, I used to run around the office yelling that our next product was only going to have one error message "AN ERROR OCCURRED" after yet another exchange like this: Tech: XYZ support, may I help you? Customer: Yes, XYZ blew up yesterday. Tech: Our apologies. What was the error message? Customer: Something about an error occurred. Tech: What was the exact message number? We could use that to troubleshoot the issue. Customer: I don't know. We already deleted the SYSOUT. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
