Re: Consultants who have to work on junk equipment -- MIDRANGE-L

Oh ya - forget debug and who is THAT good that they haven't needed debug at one
time or another <BG>...

As for the guess on who - uhhhh, weeeee, uhhhhhhh. Scary Dean !!!! And what IS 
the
winning Powerball number dude ?? !!  <BG>

Chuck

DAsmussen@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 98-11-17 19:31:09 EST, you write:
>
> > And ALL DUE RESPECT to you consultants that move around and know your stuff
> > and share that information...
> >
> >  At another job, I ran into a group a few years back that knew BPCS pretty
> well
> >  but were basically CLUELESS when it came to the AS/400; but of course they
> > would not admit that but rather took on the "know-it-alls" approach. For
> instance
> > "If you guys are running tight on disk space, remove observability from your
> >  programs". This during the time that RISC was being announced. I convinced
> the
> >  powers that be that this was NOT the solution but rather disk HOUSE
> CLEANING
> > was and if there was still a problem,  more disk ! Saveda HUGE hassle during
> the
> > CISC
> >  to RISC upgrade. The other REAL brain-dead deal was "GRTOBJAUT *ALL *ALL,
> > etc." to solve their compile and authority problems rather than figuring out
> the
> > REAL reasons. Believe it or not, I LOST this argument. Needless to say, any
> of
> > you out there that know your stuff could have a FIELD day with this
> system...
>
> OoooouuuuuCH!  While programs on the AS/400 seem to take up more space than
> most files, I would _NEVER_ suggest removing observability to save space even
> before the advent of RISC.  If you remove observability, you cannot get
> variable names _or_ a line number on a program dump.  The authority issue goes
> without saying.  Sounds like a consulting group (and I _DO_ use that term
> lightly) whose initials are CC and did lovely things like modifying the RPG
> code of BPCS rather than using AS/Set because "they didn't know AS/Set".
> Lovely until someone re-generates the RPG code from AS/Set...
>
> >  Kudos to you folks that do things right !!
>
> Thankee, sai!
>
> Dean Asmussen
> Enterprise Systems Consulting, Inc.
> Fuquay-Varina, NC  USA
> E-Mail:  DAsmussen@aol.com
>
> "A man can fail many times, but he is not a failure until he begins to blame
> somebody else." -- John Burroughs
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