Barbara Nitz wrote:

>... because he *knew* I would find something to get us closer to a solution. 

This is a good compliment. Not everyone have these nice bosses.


> ... getting the operators to find the docs and act upon it took at least 
> twice as long as the actual sadump did.

They could at least read and act! Wowowow, that is better than our ops... ;-P


>I believe using IPCS and reading dumps is a dying art practised only by a few 
>magicians these days. A shame, really.
><coming off of my soap box now>

Thanks for getting off the soap box, now my turn.

A few weeks ago I had to wear a magician's hat (no rabbits! the SPCA wont like 
it), staff and jacket and try to debug a weird COBOL error, but that was 
actually not an error, just a warning that IGZETUN is not supported anymore. 

After some dump reading, diagnostics, putting in DISPLAY, etc. I just 
re-compiled the program (discarding VS COBOL in LKED step in favour of 
CEE.SCEELKED) and its stubs. All things went jolly without any problems 
thereafter.

I agree it is a shame that dump reading is a dying art, really!

<getting of the soap box, next one please>

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

Where does Father Christmas go when he is ill?

To Ho-Ho-Ho-Hospital.

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