________________________________ From: Barbara Nitz <nitz-...@gmx.net> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, February 11, 2010 12:02:23 AM Subject: Re: Compuware FileAid to IBM FileManager Conversion
----------SNIP---------Good Info----------------- Barbara: I know its been ages but one of the more stupid items IBM pulled was making their COBOL debug file unmovable. We simply created a rule if any data set was marked unmovable it was deleted. We were always moving DASD around at all hours of the day/night/weekends and holidays etc etc we put our foot down and said to the users TS no file is allowed to be unmovable. The first time we ran across such a file we had to put a stop to the the dasd migration and it hurt a lot of people and cost the company quiet a bit of OT. I think there were 10 IBM types and 8 of us commoners and as a standby we had several managers reachable by phone. The management was really mad as it cost the company $100K+ because it did not go as planned. After that everybody understood that unmovable files would be dealt with severely and no recourse. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
