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
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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.

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> -----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

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