My takeaway from the Shark Tank story is that sometimes you CANNOT guess what the person at other end of the line is actually typing. I've had a few similar conversations where I was blown away when I finally saw in SYSLOG what was being entered. It becomes a quagmire of misdirected presumption. When you think you know the problem, you focus manically on correcting the supposed error. Eventually it turns out to be a different error that you did not visualize.
Just yesterday I was in an online chat with my Help Desk, who told me not to worry about the mysterious 'cannery files' I had discovered on my laptop. I was reassured but mystified by the nature of cannery files. I learned later in the day that these files are actually called 'canary', as in canary in the coal mine. My response was that I had never encountered canned canaries, but I have reputation to uphold for trying anything once. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 7:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK On 2018-11-20, at 11:26:22, Phil Smith III wrote: > > I’ve also always been surprised that no *ix implementation ever bit > the bullet and tried to fix case sensitivity. Windows, of course, got > it right; alas, given the historical antipathy *ix folks have for > Windoze, I fear that’s all the more reason it will never get fixed… > Your dislike of case sensitivity in *ix is obvious. How do you feel about z/OS, which is equally case sensitive? Would you support an RFE to make STOW, BLDL, DYNALLOC, Catalog Services, JCL, TSO, and the RTLs of various languages case insensitive? (I'm not volunteering to submit such an RFE.) (BTW, what was the problem in the SHARK TANK article at the head of this thread? I have no familiarity with CICS operations so I couldn't guess what the command should have been, nor what the naive operator was attempting to enter. Was it a matter of case sensitivity?) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
