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I remember many moons ago, I was scheduling a PWRDWNSYS for overnight to
apply some PTFs. Unfortunately I hit Enter before I had set the date and
time. Well, the PTFs got installed, just not overnight.

On Sat, Mar 10, 2018, 4:37 PM DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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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 >
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