> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barbara Nitz
>
> >So this half-a$$ed masking was put in there by DESIGN? WOW!
Incredibly
> >brain dead. They violated Lionel Dyck's "principle of least
astonishment".
> >It should have been designed to work like standard dataset masking in
SMS.
> >Designer: "Should we use DFDSS rules? Nahhh! (and now for
something
> >COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, cue the Liberty Bell march). At least they're
not
> >making us submit SHARE requirements to fix it.
>
> This is the future of z/OS, in my opinion:
> 1. Think about a feature (preferably one that customers had submitted
lots of
> requirements for)
> 2. Design it
> 3. Realise that this design cannot be programmed/tested with the
budget
> 4. Shorten the design to make it brain-dead. The only goal is to get a
short
> code path so it fits the 3$-budget allotted for it
> 5. Wait for customers to scream after GA
> 6. Maybe fix it via apar (probably because parts of the 'real' design
were
> already in, just not tested yet to make them GA-eligible)
> 7. Ask customers to open a requirement for the BAD design which will
then go
> through 1 to 6.
>
> And you ask why the platform is dying?
Indeed. Once upon a time, "good enough" wasn't; "excellent" was sought
and frequently achieved. Nowadays, too often "good enough" is a bonus:
"Here, this sort of does that. Now go bother somebody else."
-jc-
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