NOthing (was: British Food Question

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rita Winston" <catlady at w...> wrote:
> --- 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".


Moral : if it's working, don't change diddly.