"Mostly Harmless"? :-) Or, for the youngsters, "That Boy Does Nothing"? :-)
Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: [email protected] Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Ed Gould wrote: > Gerhard: > Long long ago I was doing some SMF number crunching and at our > installation IEFBR14 was the highest number of executions (for the > month I was working on). I sent an memo to the IS VP indicating that > IEFBR14 was doing more work than any of our production jobs. He was > NOT amused (grin). He was trying to justify a larger CPU at the time > and the President had gotten a hold of the memo and was attempting > to quash the bigger CPU request. He (president) did not have a clue > what IEFBR14 really did. I was ordered to write a follow up memo > explaining what it did. Trying to dumb down (to the executive level) > a memo explaining IEFBR14 was not easy! I think I went through 20 > revisions until it was so meaningless it said nothing.The memo > satisfied the everyone before it was sent up to the mountain top. I > wish now I had kept a copy. > Ed Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
