________________________________ From: Graeme Gibson <gra...@ase.com.au> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, May 19, 2010 6:13:37 AM Subject: Re: Of interest to the Independent Contractors on the list
> > How many of those "Prophets of Doom" knew what they were talking about but it > worked for most executives. The doom would have been real enough if the prophets had been ignored. -----------------snip-------------------- I always thought that even IBM cut it real close when it came to fixing SMF records. I vaguely remember some ptf's coming out in last 1990's fixing a record. Since its been over 10 years my memory cannot come up with specifics other than I remember "some". I agree that with out the doom sayers management would never have paid any attention (or very little). I know for sure my code for SMF record(s) reporting needed a few tweaks here and there. I would have hated to fix the reporting program I wrote in 197x as that was a program that even I was amazed at as to its efficiency. I am pretty sure the kludge that would have had to be redone would not have been pretty. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
