On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, at 18:31, Bill Johnson wrote: > No problem with AH digs however.
What is "AH", apart from Add Halfword? > On Monday, August 23, 2021, 12:48:16 PM EDT, Pommier, Rex > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bob, > > No politics, no braggery. :-) I have written a total of 1 program > that compiled and ran clean first time. Early '80s, NCR mini computer > and Cobol. Hardware failures due to environmentals had caused us to > lose the computer and all our A/R transactions for the day. NCR > hobbled enough of the machine back together so we could start recovery > late in the day. We had 2 master files but no transactions. Running > on caffeine and adrenaline, I wrote a compare program as I was keying > it to build the transaction list from the 2 (rather convoluted) ISAM > files with a coworker standing behind me catching my typo's and > offering suggestions as we were going. Got the program keyed and ran > the compile and it compiled clean first try. We looked at each other > and said there's gotta be something wrong with the logic because that > doesn't happen. It was late so we put together the run JCL (or > whatever NCR called it) and submitted it, knowing it would crank for a > few hours and we went home to bed. Came back in the next morning to > see a good transaction file and everything balanced. Neither one of us > to this day knows how we managed that. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
