Not much was shaking here. Janice Gibb presented preliminary results of the JES2 OCO Survey that the JES2 Project sent out last year. (OCO is an acronym for "Object Code Only", IBM's new policy of not making source code available for their program products and operating systems.)

The survey was rather involved - I took a day filling it out. Another person I talked to last SHARE said he took TWO days. They wanted to know which exits you used, for what purpose, how many lines of code it took, was the documentation adequate, which sections of the manuals required improvement for which exits, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

I did catch up with Stephen Anania from JES2 Development. He told me that he was getting my $SCAN problem APARed (it has taken me a year to get this far). He also agrees that my requirement to rearrange the sequence of events when JES2 issues message $HASP190 fixes a bug. He also pointed out that IBM's official response to date is "Future Objective" - we call it "F.O." - but that he was going to try to get some action on it anyway.