Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!ctrsol!emory!stiatl!tom From: tom@stiatl.UUCP (Tom Wiencko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: IBM bug notification/update policy Message-ID: <6473@stiatl.UUCP> Date: 15 Aug 89 15:33:14 GMT References: <550@pan.UUCP> Reply-To: tom@stiatl.UUCP (Tom Wiencko) Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Procedure IS the product" Lines: 16 In article <550@pan.UUCP> jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes: >discovered a new response to virtually any bug report - "That's not a >bug, it's a documentation error." For example, I recently discovered > >jw This is not the best one. Back in the days when I used to submit a lot of APARs (Authorized Program Analysis Reports, aka bug reports) IBM had a classic way of closing a report they did not want to fix. You ready for this? Better sit down. "We are closing your APAR as an undocumented restriction." Great. Tom