Edward Gould wrote: >about 20 years ago I worked at such a place. They did NOT believe in applying >maintenance.
I have seen all sides of that attitude: No/few/emergency only maintenance against regular maintenance and staying at the front including IPL the sandbox nearly weekly/monthly to apply PTFs and to do 'things'. Then you get 'percussive maintenance' - hitting it with a fist or hammer hoping to 'fix' it... ;-) >Along comes the Y2K problem and they were in a bind (to say the least). ... bind ... ? Good pun, now you're talking about DB2... ;-) >They decided to order a servpac (new at the time). >They were a big user of DB2 (I have no knowledge of it) but they were really >hurting in order to get up to snuff. Were they backlevel at that stage or is it a matter to fix the applications inside DB2, then upgrade? >They were non going to ORDER COBOL (current as it cost $5 more than the old) >then LE hit them in the face and they *HAD* to order that. That almost burst >their gut. Ouch... And their clients? Were they suffering (unneeded downtime + loss of money and time) during these drama? Oh, tell me, LE is a really hard beast to tame, but once you're there, all is fine ... until next major change... >I am glad I got out of there. I really would also be glad. I rather will not ask about their RACF, JES2, HSM, etc. status at that time... sounds scary... Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
