Takes a lot of IF statements to equal one MSU. Does not take a heck of a lot of programmer time to equal $13,000.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 1:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Is there an Enterprise COBOL API to detect SOURCE-COMPUTER "WITH DEBUGGING" on or off at runtime? Most probably do not care. We do. You'd be amazed at the things we do to reduce our MSU requirements. Programmers are a "fixed cost". From what I've been told, if we could reduce our Group Capacity by 1 MSU, we would save $13,000/yr, in "hard" dollars. So we would spend many "soft" dollars to do this. I'd best say no more. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:54 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Is there an Enterprise COBOL API to detect > SOURCE-COMPUTER "WITH DEBUGGING" on or off at runtime? > > Could you have a switch that was set to 'X' by default but to 'Y' by a > debugging statement, and then your "if not debugging" test is switch > NE 'Y'. > > Do we really need to care about CPU cycles for a debugging "IF"? > > Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN