On Dec 29, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Rick Fochtman wrote:
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Got stuck in a situation where senior management kept appropriating
the prefix for other uses. At one point, I was changing the prefix
weekly. In spite of all my efforts to explain this to senior
management, they remained clueless. I finally waited for a new
release of RACF, then told them the capability was removed. Peace
at last!!!
Why do so many senior managers seem so "know-it-all"-ish?? Too many
"airline magazines" ??
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Rick,
I doubt it those types of magazines don't go into that kind of detail.
More likely some middle management type got the idea and sold it to
the higher ups. At least where I worked we had clearly defined high
level data set names and it was well thought out it also took into
the fact that we had two data centers and the different data centers
were 1 character c for Chicago and N for new york so a dataset name
(from memory) was:
p = Production t for test ?(forgot) for production testing (it was
called something else but I have forgotten)
b = location (c & N)
u = u=both locations o only in 1 city
n = nonvsam v=vsam
.
jobname
. yadda
. yadda
. yadda
Its been a while and I don't remember the yadda part but IIRC it was
the program name that created the file and other info in the yadda
yadda portion.
It was clear cut and you could look at the dsn and instantly find out
almost everything you needed to know about where it was created and
by what jobname. The proc names and jobnames followed the same
convention. The jobnames were numberers 010,020 etc everything had
to follow conventions or the proc/job was not allowed into production
PERIOD. Everyone knew the rules and followed them PERIOD no
exceptions PERIOD.
It was pretty good and was easy to train new people as the
information was almost instantly available for debugging purposes.
Ed
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