Peter:
I have had the "opportunity" in the past to support at least one of
the McKinney products (LISTCAT ??).
Essentially all it did was to take the outout (sysprint) from IDCAMS
and produce a much smaller report.
It was a COBOL program.
One day I got a call from the production people about an OC4 (in
LISTCAT) . I looked at it a little and since it was a vendor program
I called up their "support" line.
AFter a few minutes on the phone I got a not to nice of a response:
"DEBUG it yourself"
Now I know the product cost very little but I expected a little more
than that.
I was not going to spend a half hour trying to debug their code.
I decided to write a REXX exec to do the same thing. It took me all
of 20 minutes to write it and 30 minutes to test it. Since it was a
who cares output and to make the production people happy I ran it and
gave them the output and I ran it passed the programmer.
He & they were happy and we put it in production and its been working
for over 20 years (no bugs).
I asked why we bought it and could never trace it back to the
orderer. The next OS release I deleted it and made sure that we never
paid them a penny for the product).
I went out of my way to steer the company away from any Mckinney
products after that. I think over the 20 years it was mentioned once.
Yes they are cheap but then you get what you pay for source and thats
it. I have gotten better support out of the CBTTAPE .
Sorry I would suggest you think long and hard about any of their
"stuff" (I refuse to call them programs as one has to have support to
be called a product in my opinion).
Ed
On Feb 9, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Thanks Jim, that one was pointed out to me in an offline email.
It's in the mix for analysis.
Peter
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Subject: Re: Simple iinventory control products?
Mackinney have something called OSXREFS.
*OSXREFS consists of 4 utility programs*
*OSXDSN*, *OSXLINKS*, *OSXSCAN* and *OSXPROC* provide the following
functions:
- Cross-reference datasets and PROCEDURES in a specified JCLLIB/
PROCLIB
- Cross-reference Programs and PROCEDURES that execute them
- Cross-references strings found in PDS members
- Cross-reference JCL Procedures and executed Programs
I haven't used it myself, but I expect that as with all Mackinney
products,
the price will be right and support will be good.
Jim McAlpine
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 <
peter.far...@broadridge.com> wrote:
Hi All,
I am being asked if there are relatively simple source-and-JCL
inventory
control products available for z/OS. I found one myself (XREF
product
at dcmsi.com), but management wants to know if any other software
vendors provide such a product.
We're not interested at the moment in full life cycle management
products like Endeavor or ChangeMan. We just need a simple inventory
control product that could answer interactive queries (E.G., What
JCL
uses this file? Where is this program used?) by programmers and
technical support staff.
TIA for any product or company names or links you can provide.
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