In a message dated 7/6/2005 4:24:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>A Devil's Advocate might be tempted to say just because you don't ABEND >does not mean that >a user did not overlay or incorrectly modify VSAM control blocks that are >in user key. How can >you ever trust the stats? and there is of course a sense in which his argument is unanswerable; but it is finally irrelevant because too fertile (and sophomoric): It can be used to argue that no result of any program's execution can be trusted. My point was that it does not seem to me to be any more likely that the stats have been hosed if all we know is that an ABEND has occurred. If you want to determine the likelihood that the stats have been hosed, you should examine the stats for reasonableness, whether ABENDing or NORMENDing. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
