As you may have seen on CNN, we here in Houston have been a little busy starting with over 200,000 unexpected guests in August. We barely got that under control when we looked up and found Rita on our door step.
What can I do to get up to speed on the LMDS process? X = SOAPBOX(ACTIVATE) And how can we convince IBM that a manual process is hugely expensive? Far more expensive than the occasional runaway task. We are fully automated, to include the draft spreadsheet being emailed to several principals. Any of the principals can perform the final checks/changes and submit the reports. (Can you say no single point of failure? I knew you could.) We really have no way to know if the reported numbers are 'accurate'. Only roughly reasonable. Anyone with experience with SMF/RMF data knows what kind of accuracy can be expected. Taking September as an example, there were only *four* working days before the cutoff. And we a little busy. A detailed review was out of the question. In fact, we *did* have a spike we would like to know more about. We had to set priorities, and that did not make the cut. The IBM *demand* that the report be reviewed by a huge team of very expensive people every month is naive at best. We have found that what we consider fair and accurate is not acceptable to IBM anyway. Sorry, it ain't gonna happen. IBM: kindly butt out of how we run our shop. A swing of a couple of percent MSU is beyond meaningless to us. Even so, it would cost us much more money to research the issue that to simply pay the bill. That said: I have nothing but praise for the SCRT team. Responsive, helpful, a pleasure to work with. It is the IBM policies sticking in my craw. If enough of us start squawking, IBM might listen to reason. C'mon folks, all together now..... 100% automated with a suitable review/change point. Then a single click to submit the final report. Much like the current email process. If IBM insists on a human transcribing numbers, then that process *must* allow for ordinary human keying errors and provide suitable protest/correction processes for upwards of 180 days. X = SOAPBOX(DEACTIVATE) Hal Merritt -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of B Sysprog Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: SCRT We are new to SubCapacity Reporting. As of November, we were notified that we must submit our monthly reports vaw LMDS (License Manager Data Submission). We currently use the email submission method and have it mostly automated. Does anyone know if we can automate the LMDS submission process, and how to do this? Thank you, BK Kosmach ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
