On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Clark Morris <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2009 23:11:57 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >Unfortunately, you're in a pretty difficult situation. In a perfect world > I > >would say that you should re-write the stuff correctly, but here in the > real > >world, you probably don't have the time to do that. You may not even know > >how to do it the "right" way, but I think that you will probably work > things > >out somewhere in the middle on your own. Just remember to get enough > sleep > >so that when you get those 3am calls, you can at least sound coherent. > > Depending on what the subsystems do, z/OS or other software already in > house may have been enhanced to have some or all of the functions. If > no one has looked at this, that should be done. It might be possible > to move the functions into exits of other subsystems. I like creating > usermods to make people's lives easier but I like finding the function > in existing code even more because what I don't do, I don't have to > fix. > <http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html> > I basically agree with that sentiment. But if the OP was in a position to open the entire can of worms the first question should be "what business functionality is actually required?" Once you get past that you can drill into the question of whether a formal subsystem is even the right answer any more, regardless of how well done it is. My guess would be "not". -- This email might be from the artist formerly known as CC (or not) You be the judge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
