NOthing (was: British Food Question

[Rita Winston]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:

> Basically, you "suck it and see":  you suck the sherbet through the 
> hollow liquorice and then eat the liquorice stick.
> Neil
> FFA

I'm replying to message 923 of 988, but have confidence that no one 
has yet said what I am about to say, because it is not worth saying:

System abend FFA is what a job running a DLI pgm gets when the IMS (or 
DBCTL?) RESLIB specified in the JCL is too back-level for the IMS 
version currently running on the system.

For a week and a half (Monday to Monday to Thursday), I was 
afflicted with a rather stressful production problem in which some 
production jobs for which I am responsible suddenly started getting 
FFA abend, and when I changed to a higher-level RESLIB, other bad 
things started happening....

I had to keep explaining the problem over and over (if several of 
the explanations hadn't been to the same person, I would have 
gotten slightly less frustrated), and soon whenever I said "FFA 
abend", I felt compelled to add "That doesn't stand for Flying Ford 
Anglia or First Families of America".