On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:51:44 -0500 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My favorite came from an old AT&T SysVr3 box. It was: > "Error: should not happen". Ah, if we are gonna dig up errors from the good old days, my favorite was always the IBM JCL error something like: IEF020I DCB ERROPT=ABE and/or no SYNAD exit specified. When you looked it up in the trusty messages and codes manual, you'd get the vastly improved version: IEF020I The DCB ERROPT was set to ABE and/o no SYNAD exit was specified. Programmer action: Correct error and resubmit job. Now that's what I call helpful! (For those dying to know, the actual error was always that the $#@! operator in the comp center mounted the wrong tape on the wrong drive :-).
