On Tue, 4 Aug 2009 19:03:22 -0500, Chris Mason <[email protected]> wrote:
>... >Yes, the whole design is a total mess. I suggest you hit your IBM >support with this shoddy design with as much force as you can >muster. It's incompetence piled on incompetence, in the >implementation *and* the description. It shows what can >happen when the "suits" force a "quick-and-dirty" enhancement >and use developers who clearly don't understand the environment >in which they are working to implement it. I don't have any of the inside IBM connections that Chris has so I can't say he is wrong, but I see this much differently on a number of points. 1. The product is "working as designed". If you want this changed you're going to have to submit a Requirement with a very strong business case. Fixing USS design flaws isn't going to be very high on anybody's list. 2. If "siuts" were involved I think they were those that decided staffing levels. 3. I may be thinking designers rather than developers, but I don't think "incompetence" is an operative word here. On the TCP/IP side this is a very small group (possibly one person) working on less than stellar code. On the VTAM side I suspect it is down to about nobody - not for the USS part. Rather than incompetence, I suspect this is a matter of wanting to touch a house of cards as little as possible. >... >Instead the "people of inadequate intelligence" have amazingly >done the exact opposite. Once again, I may be thinking designer rather than developer, but I think this is a very unfortunate characterization. He is in no way "of inadequate intelligence". >... >I'm guessing that the reason they shied away from altering the >USSMSG macro ... is that they didn't want to involve the SNA >(VTAM) side of the Communication Server house in their clandestine >enhancement. I think it much more likely that there was nobody on VTAM side to work on it. They are (he is?) stretched pretty thin. >It's cheaper if you just impose the change in the TN3270 server >logic. Or possibly that was the only way to get it done at all. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
