Re: Regarding retrieving source from modules

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Eric N. Wilson
President
Doulos Software & Computer Services
2913 N Alder St.
Tacoma WA 98407
> Reduncancy is nice, but is still no substitute for proper procedures
> to begin with.

Hans I am not suggesting that proper source and object controls be put into
place. I am a strong advocate of that! Change control is essential and I
would shudder to think that shops do not have some form of it or another. In
addition in couple of shops that I worked at we had Mimix running with 2
AS/400s so that we could do a savlib *nonsys every single night without
affecting the users too much. Just by switching the users from one machine
to the other. Very nice! And now with the new tape drives, Grandfather those
tapes for 10 or 20 generations and keep weekly/monthy/yearly saves in
perpituity...

> I think that's a dangerous recommendation that may lead to
> complacency.  In my opinion, there is no substitute for proper
> backup/recovery procedures along with proper change management
> procedures.
>
> Using the dbgview(*list) information is a cute trick, but it's
> too prone to misuse to be considered a reliable technique for
> source recovery.

Well I am sorry to disagree with you but I certainly do! It is a requirement
that all of our objects have the source in them... (Our change management
tool takes care of making sure that is accomplished.) I love redundancy LOVE
IT LOVE IT! :-)

I will stop beating this dead horse now.

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