Re: My nomination for the single most dangerous, command on an IBM Midrange box -- MIDRANGE-L

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And those who recall prompting on S/34 and S/36 was 'key command and press Enter'. Upgrade to As/400 and now 'key command and press Enter' did a whole different thing, e.g. PWRDWNSYS. And that one is just plain mean too because the defaults are 'In 1 Hour' and there is no 'Undo' :-(

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On 3/10/2018 12:09 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

A couple candidates - PWRDWNSYS in 1991 or so did not check whether it SHOULD be run - I'd mentioned it to students at Mpls Tech inst, where, I'd got what training I had, and someone just tried it on a command line - pretty loose authority, too, eh?

Another beauty is a size setting for a memory pool - *NOSTG - I set QINTER to that and no one could sign on - WOOPS!!!

I'm just glad I'm talking over 25 years ago!!

Regards
Vern

On 3/9/2018 4:37 PM, Bill Hansen wrote:

Why limit it to a keyboard.

In the first version of Navigator, it was possible to use your mouse to drag*/root* or*QSYS.LIB* to the Windows Recycle bin. It took a while, but eventually the interface code got hit and the AS/400 went belly up. Can you spell Alternate IPL Device?

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