Re: History (was Matching Record (Was Need Help))

[Neil Palmer <NPalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Gibbs wrote:
> 
> On  7 Aug 97 at 8:49, Scott Cornell wrote:
> 
> > Wow, an "old timers" question I actually
> > know the answer to (or maybe it just dates
> > the vendor software I have to support)
> 
> Ok, since we are going so far back in time... who here remembers the
> GOLEM program... what did it stand for and what did it do?
> 
> And people associated NEWS400 (or any of it's predecessors) are exempt
> from this one :)


Hmm - very interesting - more S/36 stuff !
See APAR S339901 below from 1989.  Someone probably patched the module
incorrectly.



  APAR Identifier ...... S339901       Last Changed..89/06/06  APAR
Identifier ...... S339901       Last Changed..89/06/06
  CP-ALL LOCAL SCREENS, INCL CONSOLE, INPUT INHIBITED WITH NO
  MESSAGES
 
  Symptom ...... LP LOOP              Status ........... CLOSED  RET
  Severity ................... 2      Date Closed ......... 89/05/30
  Component .......... 5727SS1SS      Duplicate of ........
  Reported Release ......... 051      Fixed Release ............
  Component Name 5727 SSP             Special Notice
  Current Target Date ..              Flags
  SCP ...................
  Platform ............
 
  Status Detail: Not Available
 
  PE PTF List:
 
  PTF List:
 
 
  Parent APAR:
  Child APAR list:
 
 
  ERROR DESCRIPTION:
  ALL LOCAL SCREENS WENT INPUT INHIBITED INCLUDING CONSOLE.
  SYS REQ KEY WOULD NOT FUNCTION AND THERE WERE NO ERROR MESSAGES
  OR SRC CODES DISPLAYED. ALL REMOTE TERMINALS HAD SIGNED OFF
  PREVIOUSLY, SYSTEM RAN OK FOLLOWING IPL.
  SYSTEM IS AT DK3703
 
 
  LOCAL FIX:
 
 
  PROBLEM SUMMARY:
 
 
  PROBLEM CONCLUSION:
 
 
  TEMPORARY FIX:
 
 
  COMMENTS:
  THE QUEUE HEADER POINTER TO THE TUB CHAIN HAS BEEN ZEROED.  ON
  18-MAY-1989 MORE INFORMATION WAS REQUESTED THROUGH LEVEL 2 TO
  HELP RESOLVE THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM.  SINCE THIS INFORMATION
  HAS NOT BEEN RECEIVED AND THE PROBLEM HAS NOT REOCCURRED THIS
  APAR IS BEING CLOSED AS A RET.  IF THIS PROBLEM REOCCURS PLEASE
  PROVIDE A COPY OF THE USER OBJECT MODULE GOLEM ALONG WITH:
  1.  A 5000 BLOCK ALL SVC ALL FID TRACE.
  2.  A SYSTEM DUMP AT THE TIME OF FAILURE.
  3.  THE HISTORY FILE COVERING THE TIME OF FAILURE.
  4.  ALL OTHER APAR MATERIALS.
  ALSO PLEASE PROVIDE INFORMATION AS TO THE TYPE OF MODEL D IN
  USE AND THE STATUS OF THE GROUND STRAP ON THE A1 BOARD.
 
 

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