I cheated and Googled it. I didn't do very much IBM mainframe stuff. Most of my mainframe experience was on ICLs. The 1901T was the first I used and it had much more readable error messages. ILL.X springs to mind. You got it when you tried to execute an illegal instruction. There was an entire alphabet of illegal things you could do.
http://pink-mouse-productions.com/icl/1900.htm I refused to sully myself with JCL having previously used CL and SCL on ICL 29xx kit. It was a greatly superior control language (derived from Algol via Pascal). The ICL 2900 series was the high point of mainframe design. They were exceptionally good machines and VME was probably the best mainframe operating system ever written. http://pink-mouse-productions.com/icl/2900.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VME On one IBM project we had to spend a lot of time writing ad hoc reports and doing different JCL for each one, which was extremely tedious and long-winded, so over about a week I stayed behind and wrote rather a good report generator which could be programmed with about 3 cards or something equally ridiculously efficient, and we started using that. It made me a hero. I also recall an IBM system called CMS that I quite liked, and I later went on to use AS400s, which were very good. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tom C > Sent: 01 October 2007 15:53 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT: Pedantry (RE: PESO - Farmers Market > > I bet you Bob can tell me what an S0C7 (sock7) means. > > > > Tom C. > > > >From: ann sanfedele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >Subject: Re: OT: Pedantry (RE: PESO - Farmers Market > >Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:16:46 -0400 > > > >It was ever so... even back in th olden days when the > machines took up > >whole rooms, it always seemed the > >error message was on a different planet than what was actually wrong. > > > >Fortunately, Tom caught it and resubmitted a really nice photo :) > > > >ann > > > > > >Bob W wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >>A shot from the market. > > >> > > >>http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6477862 > > >> > > > > > >Got a big 404 on that. > > > > > >Somebody ought to teach photo.net how to write error > messages, and the > > >rudiments of English grammar. Their message is > > > > > >"Problem with Your Input > > >We had a problem processing your entry: > > >This photo doesn't exist. (The owner has probably deleted it.) > > >Please back up using your browser, correct it, and resubmit your > > >entry. " > > > > > >I can't begin to count the number of ways in which that is wrong. > > > > > >But let me try. > > > > > >"Problem with your input" - blame the user > > > > > >"We had a problem processing your entry" My entry? Is that > the same as > > >my input, or are there 2 problems? Which is it - input or entry? > > >Besides, I didn't enter anything, and I don't think I provided any > > >input. I clicked a link. > > > > > >"This photo doesn't exist" - bad grammar. 'This' photo must exist. > > >Besides, I asked for a page, not a photo. If the page I asked for > > >doesn't exist, don't use 'this'. > > > > > >"Please back up using your browser, " Uh? What does that mean? Do I > > >have to restore using my browser too? > > > > > >"correct it, " - correct my browser? There's something > wrong with my > > >browser too? > > > > > >"and resubmit your entry" - but you told me you had a problem > > >processing it. What's changed that I should resubmit it? > > > > > >-- > > > Bob > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >[email protected] > >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and > >follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
