I call that the "GTF effect"; the problem never manifests when I have diagnostic measures in place to capture failure data.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tom Brennan [t...@tombrennansoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2020 1:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes" At least in that case you can hopefully reproduce the error :) It's the one-time lost error messages that as a support person, you sometimes have to say, "Oh well" My favorite is when someone is repeatedly getting an error, but when they call me over and without doing anything differently, the error magically goes away. I always said this was because the computer knows that I simply won't stand for such insubordination and it knows that I know where the off switch is. On 6/11/2020 9:42 AM, Bob Bridges wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
