On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:26:54 -0400, Thompson, Steve <[email protected]> wrote:
>... >It is also a problem that some time after 1991, the IBM internal >standards were apparently discarded (apparently with management >blessing). There were specific naming standards, specific requirements >for program directories (and their very specific formatting), etc. >... I'm afraid you are right. There was a time when unexpected behavior could be flagged INCORROUT and a design could be just as defective as code. (I don't know if that was ever an official policy, but it seemed to be the way Service worked.) But that was back when IBM had people around to fix problems. A lot of those people have retired, moved to other positions, become "suits", etc. In the past I've argued myself blue in the face of Broken as Designed issues. (Not "problems". Just ask IBM. Can't be a "problem" if it's working as designed.) But now that all the development, change, and level 2 support teams have evaporated, and now that my technical relationships with some of those left have been replaced by friendships, I tend to take less strident tone. Submit a Requirement. No, you shouldn't have to, but the lone developer where there used to be 10 is going to be working on high priority changes (when he's not stolen by Service to work on a Sev 1 bug). Even if you get them to accept a PMR it's going to a Sev 3; your grand children may see the PTF. So submit a Requirement for it. (I'm a lot more comfortable saying that now that I'm no longer the Requirements Coordinator for SHARE's Networking program.) 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
