RE: "S/36 Printer ID" changed?

[Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't much of anything about the S/36 environment.  It seems like a longshot that the timing of the power failure was just a coincidence.



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From: Jerry Adams [mailto:midrange@xxxxxxxx] 
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Subject: RE: "S/36 Printer ID" changed?

That was 1983 at the Fall COMMON Conference in Phoenix.  

To your question about "how" the change occurred: I'm still ruminating.
Offhandedly I'd have to guess that something changed on either the system or the device.  Mere power outages, no matter how severe, would not account for it.  

As to Rob's issue with RPG36 (i.e., II), I agree.  At least as regards "new"
programs.  I would not rewrite an RPG II program for a simple few lines fix; that would be silly.  New stuff, of course, should always be in ILE RPG (unless, of course, Cobol is your bag).  I've followed some @#$%
consultant(s) around TN who told their clients that "Well, since you're sunning 36E, (a) we can't rationalize the DB and (b) everything has to be in RPG II."  

Jerry C. Adams
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