Products from UCC (at least, UCC7 and UCC11) came in source form with line numbers. Fixes came in IEBUPDTE form to insert lines by line number. When a new release came out, they would tell you which programs were renumbered so you would know which local mods you had to rework.
In 1984, we were in the MVS/XA Early Support Program. I worked with the lead UCC7 programmer on changes that were needed. He then took what he learned back to the UCC11 developers and they sent someone out one weekend to implement the changes they had developed. We were going to make the changes and do the test on a Sunday afternoon when we had test time for XA. The person brought punch cards with the updates. By that time, we did not have card readers. Also, the cards only had the punches - no text across the top. We spent a couple hours finding something we could use to dial into the UCC system and get access to the code, which we could then type into our system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
