Re: Too Much DASD

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:07 PM 5/17/97 -0400, Hank wrote:
>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."


Well, we've got the month end and year end tapes salted away as a snapshot
in time...  we could re-create the stuff they need if they're -really-
desperate.

What's wrong with Good Ol' Microfiche as a bulk storage medium?  Small,
compact, easy to use...

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com

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