> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL > Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 7:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Anyone using the DIAG Parm VSM CHECKREGONLOSS yet? > > >REGION is one of those things that should not be left to > application JCL to manager properly. > > I disagree (strongly) with that statement! > Tech Support is there to help, not control! > > Yes. The config is a technical issue; the reason it's there > is to support the business, ie, appdev. > > They know better than tech supp what is needed.
Theoritically true. But not __always__ in practice. What has made some shops give control of some things which should be in apps to tech support is that apps doesn't do it correctly, and then screams that it is a system level problem, not an application parameter problem. I have this problem with COBOL here. Apps always does a ACCESS IS DYNAMIC on all VSAM files. Even if they know that they are only going to do a sequential READ to read the entire file from start to end. They state that having to use the proper ACCESS IS is just too much of a bother. In the off-chance that they will change their mind later, they have less code to review and change. But when the apps runs too long, it is a system problem! This is a management problem, granted. But I'm still the poor SOB who is screamed at. So, if I'm responsible, then I'm taking away authority out of desperation. I would love the programmers to all be efficiency fiends. But that's not what they are graded on, so it's not thei! r first concern. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-691-6183 cell [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
