I had a similar experience, Vern. I had to teach a newbie to do CL so I gave him Ernie Malaga's book and said, "Read this; I'll be back in a minute." Ernie's text example was PWRDWNSYS in the Intro. Before I got my zipper back in place, I heard screams of "What the h*ll is happening!" All of the sessions were going down one-by-one.
Jerry C. Adams
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon Hamberg
Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2018 11:09 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: My nomination for the single most dangerous, command on an IBM Midrange box
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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