On 2013-07-23, at 08:53, Skip Robinson wrote: > > I understand the appeal of the quick-and-dirty download-and-go approach, > particularly for a consultant brought to town for a product install. It's > fast, it's tidy, and it's over before the smoke clears. Then bye-bye to > Ms. C, who moves on to the next town in dire need of a competent sheriff. > But life goes on in each town. Next month or next year, some fix or > enhancement is required. Who will do that and how? Who will know--or > remember--exactly what state the product was left in after the last > dust-up? > And if Ms. C were to oblige the customer and perform an installation with SMP/E, she'd have to be granted the special privileges now needed for SMP/E, over and above the authority to modify the data sets actually needed for the product. Will auditors be entirely happy with that?
Grrr. I suppose Ms. C can back-seat drive for a member of the systems staff with suitable privileges. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
