Re: Bpcs standards

["Clare Holtham" <Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean,
XRF doesn't work in V6...
Clare
----- Original Message -----
From: <DAsmussen@AOL.COM>
To: <BPCS-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 6:35 AM
Subject: 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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