First OS/390 install I did kept failing on the Unix System Services steps. The terminal I had only did uppercase. Once I swapped it out with one that did both cases, it worked fine. Beat my head on the desk for a couple of days on that one.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 1:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK Nice. I once got on a plane to go to a customer site because they could NOT get an SNMP common string accepted. As I had at least half suspected, they were entering it in uppercase, despite multiple explicit attempts to get them to enter it in lowercase. (Yes, I'd suggested WebEx or equivalent; "Not allowed".) Customer wasn't even abashed. Case sensitivity and null-terminated strings: two historical Unix mistakes that have cost untold billions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
