Re: RE: Where did Jan get z/SIE block documentation?

10/18/02 3:11:35 PM, "Peter D. Ward" 
<pdw-8vCV/ysLmtGNxDRMFtSYuw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<---snip--->
>And just so we are all level set, could you perhaps define what you mean
>by "openly available information"?  It may be that we have a simple
>misunderstanding of what documents and sources constitute "publically
>available".
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Let's be careful we don't accidentally add new FUD into this discussion.

The exact phrase in the quote originally referenced was neither "openly 
available information" or "publically available" -- it was: "... readily 
ascertainable through proper means by the public."

My point was that test suites would be hard to justify as trade secrets.

I stated that creating a test suite was simplistic work that **could** be 
accomplished by a junior system programmer without the use of any "secret" 
information. 

The fact is that a "dumb" test suit could be auto-written by a program 
generating shells with predetermined patterns of mnemonics, assembling that 
shell code on a real mainframe, running it on a real mainframe to capture 
results, and then running it on an emulator to compare the results.  The 
only hard part about that would be intelligently trying to "trim" the 
shells to avoid testing **every** combination of code sequences.


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