Reply to: IT pros more likely to suffer from stress, says new survey

[ratewhore]

IT - stressful? Bollox!! Yeah, we're really under more stress than the junior doctors in A&E!

Fecks sake - get a grip...

[threaded]

Are you the woman with the grey suit on the right?

Gigham dresses aren't my thing, you want to talk to Arkwrights sidekick.

[Francko]

Of course I didn't write it all, and the team changes constantly with people coming and going, but you may care to play spot the threaded here though...

Are you the woman with the grey suit on the right?

[threaded]

You must be the one with the pie-stained shirt. I claim my £5.

Darn it, that was too easy for you lot!

[Fungus]

Shame, wrong, I run most versions of zOS from 1.2 up until the current one which is 1.7 and also OS/390 back to 2.7 and RACF uses mixed case on all of them.

Now I know I'm in the wrong job.

[Fungus]

Of course I didn't write it all, and the team changes constantly with people coming and going, but you may care to play spot the threaded here though...

You must be the one with the pie-stained shirt. I claim my £5.

[threaded]

I am afraid from a quick google search that threaded should be right.

Yet cannot prove that he wrote it himself though.

p.s. so is it that Racf always supported mixed case but the security manager didn't before 1.7?

Of course I didn't write it all, and the team changes constantly with people coming and going, but you may care to play spot the threaded here though...

[Francko]

We must be talking at cross purposes, pre z/OS 1.7 most everything that handled passwords converted them to upper case before passing them on to the security manager.

I am afraid from a quick google search that threaded should be right.

Yet cannot prove that he wrote it himself though.

p.s. so is it that Racf always supported mixed case but the security manager didn't before 1.7?

[threaded]

We must be talking at cross purposes, pre z/OS 1.7 most everything that handled passwords converted them to upper case before passing them on to the security manager.

So you could have mixed case, but it was the same as typing the same letter combination in upper case. Which in my language means doesn't handle mixed case.

I'm available for any security problems you no doubt have.

HTH

threaded in "reassuringly expensive" mode

[darmstadt]

IIRC pre z/OS 1.7 it didn't handle mixed case.

Shame, wrong, I run most versions of zOS from 1.2 up until the current one which is 1.7 and also OS/390 back to 2.7 and RACF uses mixed case on all of them.

[Fungus]

IIRC pre z/OS 1.7 it didn't handle mixed case.

I must be in the wrong job.

[threaded]

Eh! Its always handled mixed case passwords. What platform and OS does it run on and under?

IIRC pre z/OS 1.7 it didn't handle mixed case.

[DirtyOldMan]

A colleague who does not wash, or change his clothes, and smokes, and consequently stinks the place out

ok I admit it, that was me.

Sorry

[Fungus]

TOP TEN COLLEAGUE IRRITATIONS

1. Seeing others not pulling their weight
2. Managers changing their minds about what they want doing
3. Lack of support from managers
4. Pressure from managers
5. Feeling put-upon by managers
6. Interruptions by colleagues
7. Interruptions by managers
8. Bullying behaviour by managers
9. Lack of support from colleagues
10. Bullying behaviour by colleagues

Mmmm. I'd add:

A colleague who does not wash, or change his clothes, and smokes, and consequently stinks the place out. One friend told me that a female colleague smelt so bad that everyone bought her some soap as a present.

A colleague who displays a "stuff you I have no time to be sociable to the likes of you" attitude.

Condescending managers.

Fungus

[Fungus]

Yeah! Most people who get stressed in this game are really not cut out for it.

threaded in "The reason I don't look busy is because I got it right first time" mode.

Not sure I agree with that. I nearly left IT when as a permie I was stressed out by obnoxious condescending micro-managers. Now as a contractor I am respected, and the job varies from okay to enjoyable. I suspect contractors are less stressed, as there's less politics, and we just leave if the tulipe starts flying.