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

Worse with that command if you did it from the console display throught the menu there it would give you all four possible options 0123. Now if you recall the S/34 and 6 a:
3 - Cancel the job. Go no further.
2 - Cancel the job STEP only but the job continued. Often bad and hence called 'twoicide'
1 - Try again, maybe it works now.
0 - No matter, no biggie, no problem, just a tick above 'information'.

Thing is a 1,2 or 3 all would have caused no pain here. Both 2 and 3 would have denied the power off and 1 would have returned the same list of options.

ME I was so used to a 0 being OK that I hit it without thinking. And SILENCE ensued. Turns out that 0 was "No problem Power Off anyway!" Ooops.

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On 3/10/2018 4:25 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:

I did
POWER OFF
on a S/36.
The people in the sales demo in the next room were not impressed.

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Jerry Adams --- RE: My nomination for the single most dangerous, command on an IBM Midrange box ---
From:"Jerry Adams" <midrange@xxxxxxxx>To:"'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>Date:Sat, Mar 10, 2018 4:12 PMSubject:RE: My nomination for the single most dangerous, command on an IBM Midrange box
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. AdamsThe only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be. -Dorothy ParkerIBM i Programmer/Analyst--NMM&D615-832-2730-----Original Message-----From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vernon HambergSent: Saturday, March 10, 2018 11:09 AMTo: Midrange Systems Technical DiscussionSubject: Re: My nomination for the single most dangerous, command on an IBM Midrange boxA 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!!RegardsVernOn 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?>--This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,visit: https://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-lor email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at https://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.P-Your data has been truncated.