Re: Too Much DASD

[HankHeath@xxxxxxx]

Dean Asmussen (DAsmussen@aol.com) of Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.,
wrote:

>> Sounds like you need to do what I did at a shop that I was in charge of
(more
than I'd care to mention) years ago.  After obtaining management approval, I
sent a memo to QEVERYBODY stating that the system was NOT a filing cabinet
and that these old spool files needed to be eliminated.  <<

I've run into sites that have actually requested that not only the spooled
files be retained, but that they should be archived to a jukebox. The
argument is that these serve as a snapshot in time, and the documents serve
both as an audit and as a customer service aid. I respectfully suggest that
we are going to see more of the same in the future, not less - especially as
we Web-enable our AS/400 "servers of choice."

Hank Heath
Vice President
Medco Systems, Inc.
3 Eves Dr. 
Suite 304
Marlton, NJ 08053
ph: 215-751-5913
fax: 609-596-8650
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