Re: Bpcs standards

Sans,

In a message dated 6/27/01 9:21:03 AM US Eastern Standard Time, 
sans59@hotmail.com writes:

> I have just joined an organisation as an RPG/400 programmer. My 
organisation 
> uses BPCS system. I do not have any training or ideas as to how BPCS works 
or 
> its standards. I am on the verge of losing the job as i am not so well 
versed 
> with BPCS standards.
<<snip>>

Have you (or anyone else that responded to this question, for that matter) 
actually _READ_ this statement?  "I am on the verge of losing the job as i am 
not so well versed with BPCS standards."  Sorry, but _THAT_ is the biggest 
load of horse hockey that I've heard in quite some time.  As one who has 
spent a great deal of time at a great many clients supposedly enforcing BPCS 
standards (but rarely having the _authority_ to do so), I can surely tell you 
that there is not a _SINGLE_ person I've seen over the past ten years in any 
danger of losing their job over not following standards.  Unless you're 
working for SSA/GT itself, which I know for a fact hands you more standards 
documentation when you walk in the door than you can possibly absorb in a 
_MONTH_, you must _SURELY_ be misstating this question.

Sorry to sound so callous but, either your employer is an idiot, this 
question was phrased incorrectly, or you misrepresented yourself as a BPCS 
"expert" to them when you were hired.  The latter seems far more likely to 
me.  Fortunately, many people learned about the "DOC" menu from this thread.  
Hopefully, a few more will check out "XRF"...

Dean Asmussen
Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
E-mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
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