> On Aug 13, 2017, at 12:44 PM, scott Ford <idfli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This exists in differences between UK English and , what they call you > speak 'American', which is to say there is a difference. > > Scott Scott: About 30 years ago we were looking at up grading to MVS from VS1. The additional cost of ISPF and a security system and a few other products broke the budget. We were told we had to do a justification for ISPF and the other add ons. We spent about three weeks writing the justification up. We all read it and OK’d the presentation. We presented it about 10 AM to the VP. About a half hour later the VP came by and tossed the justification on the desk and said “You used the British spelling, change it to the American” We were aghast as we didn’t do that. Each of us took a part of it and did a really hard spell check on the pages we each had. We narrowed it down to one word (long since forgotten). We decided to change it and drop it back on the VP’s desk. The budgeting process is difficult to describe here, but I think a short description would be, any additional money we had to ask for was taken out of the profits of other companies. The President took our estimate and massaged it into the budget. Since we were not privy to what went on at these meetings, the only option was to wait. Three weeks later the VP called us in and said the budget had been approved and we went ahead and ordered MVS. We got the conversion done, and everyone was happy, for a while. Then as predicted, we were paging like crazy during the day (because of TSO). Response time was pretty bad. The VP wanted to know what we had to do to fix it and we looked at him and asked if he had read the final page of the proposal, he said yes. I piped up and said that we would very soon need to order more memory. He was really mad and walked out the door. We were asked what it would cost to add more memory, and we looked it up and asked him if this was for all the machines and he said yes. So the President had to go back to the “owners” and ask them for additional money for the upgrades. We got the money. Ed
> > On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 1:21 PM scott Ford <idfli...@gmail.com > <mailto:idfli...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> David, >> >> I had to learn French just work and do everyday functions in Switzerland, >> canton de Vaud. >> But the company I worked for realized this an proved free French lessons >> which helped a >> Great deal. >> >> Scott >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
