Similar to DC, define constant. But not constant.
On Monday, August 23, 2021, 01:42:29 PM EDT, Jeremy Nicoll
<[email protected]> wrote:
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.
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