Re: Dumb Things People Do

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Hi, Bob:

This was only partly your fault. The real blame and ultimate 
responsibility lies with the person who gave you *ALLOBJ authority in 
the first place.

The same goes for David's story about "SLTCMD" vs. "DLTCMD" ... who gave 
you *ALLOBJ, and why? :-o

Mark S. Waterbury

> Bob Cagle wrote:
> OK, I wasn't going to say anything, but now I'll pipe in.  
>
> Many years ago as a consultant, I was perusing the *SRVPGM objects
> listed in QSYS.  Dumb, I know.  I don't even remember now what I was
> looking for, other than an IBM provided routine.  I was scrolling along,
> entering 5 and pressing enter a couple of times to get to the list of
> modules.  I worked up a rhythm doing this, keying 5 and pressing enter,
> when of course I accidentally keyed 4 and ended up deleting a service
> program in QSYS before I even realized that the delete confirmation
> screen had been shown. My heart dropped and I was immediately very upset
> with myself.
>
> But, I'm thinking, no big deal, I'll just do a restore from backup...
> Well, the restore command used that service program.  And, also that
> service program was being used by the compile commands, so all of the
> other programmers found out that I had done something bad.  Not good.
>
> Needless to say, it was the stupidest thing I've ever done in my career.
> Eventually one of the other consultants figured out how to fix it.  To
> this day he still hasn't told me what he did.  I think he's still
> ticked!
>
> Bob Cagle
> IT Manager
> Lynk, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 2:46 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Dumb Things People Do
>
> What if one made the same mistake when trying to type 'SLTCMD RST*' to 
> see all the restore commands.
>
> Think about that one for a moment.
>
>