Late night operations staff pushing each other across the raised floor on wheeled office chairs. Until one night, someone ran into the side of the IBM mainframe.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Roger Bolan Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 7:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What not to do on a z/OS system... [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] Well, mine was just silly and did not involve games or using unauthorized CPU time. I was just doing my normal code development job and running PL/I compiles, links, and tests. The systems I normally used restricted the jobnames to userid + a character. Then one of the systems I was working on allowed the jobname to be whatever I wanted. So I took one of my ordinary jobs that didn't use any more time or resources than normal, and "just for fun" I gave it a jobname of "COREHOGG". OMG!! When I submitted that my phone immediately blew up with people yelling at me about what did I think I was doing? Not the operators. They could see what it was. But other users who just reacted to the name COREHOGG without knowing anything else about the job. So I learned not to give jobnames "just for fun". :) --Roger On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:41 PM Robert Prins <[email protected]> wrote: > OK, it's not the silly season, but have you ever used your employers > equipment to do something silly? And are not afraid to admit it? > > Well, I have in the early 1990'ies, and I actually got away with it, > without losing my job. > > And talking about jobs, if anyone of you know of any companies looking > for someone with 36+ years of PL/I, and a bit less Db2 and CICS, feel > free to drop me a line. > > So what did I do? Let's go back a few years… > > <goog_1283455792> > Setting the record straight > < > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prino.neocities.org/blog/2022-01-1 > 9-setting-the-record-straight.html__;!!HnnddUIWDII9UQ!GB_iEXBvQwSXDTro > 4bZX9Go8DZD4Zjg4SP5e13VDJEbdiXSLecGW46mMYasUSTU7-rk$ > > > > Robert > -- > Robert AH Prins > robert(a)prino(d)org > The hitchhiking grandfather > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prino.neocities.org/index.html__; > !!HnnddUIWDII9UQ!GB_iEXBvQwSXDTro4bZX9Go8DZD4Zjg4SP5e13VDJEbdiXSLecGW4 > 6mMYasUxQrZmmg$ > Some REXX code for use on z/OS > <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://prino.neocities.org/zOS/zOS-Tools > .html__;!!HnnddUIWDII9UQ!GB_iEXBvQwSXDTro4bZX9Go8DZD4Zjg4SP5e13VDJEbdi > XSLecGW46mMYasU9Ueigeo$ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail message from your computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
