On Mon, 23 Sep 1991 12:38:58 EDT "Philip G. Pishioneri"
<[log in to unmask]> said:
 
>In article <[log in to unmask]>, Eric Thomas
><[log in to unmask]> says:
>
>>...
>>DMSCAR105S Error '2E' writing 'CARD CMSUT1 A1' to disk.
>
>>The IBM APAR addressing this problem (closed  RET - no fix will be
>>issued
>>unless the  problem can be  reproduced with an IBM  application)
>>...
>
>Interesting, because there was an IBM application with this problem.
                            ^^^
 
Even DISK had this  problem in the early days of  CMS6 (I remember having
to resend  part of LISTSERV  in Netdata format to  a SP6 site).  IBM will
just fix any application which exhibits  that behaviour, and then say the
problem doesn't exist any more. Since  it never was a supported interface
(in fact it breaks for other reasons  - see the SFS fix), they won't take
a  compatibility APAR.  It's  sad, because  this  interface is  extremely
useful -  useful enough for so  many people to  have gone to the  pain of
reading source code  and experimenting to find out how  it works exactly.
Nick, maybe you have just found another challenge ;-)
 
  Eric