Hal Merritt wrote
. . . if the application runs authorized and there is a potential risk to
the environment, MF system > crashing is best left to the pros . . .
This is a crucial distinction. DB2 DBAs should, it would seem, be free to
use SMP/E to do their work----Why not?---as long as they cannot compromise
OS integrity in doing so. The only problem with this distinction is that a
DB2 DBA may not always be able to make it or even be aware that he or she
should try to make it in some context.
That said, I have had to clean up many, far too many, messes made by
putative 'sysprogs' using SMP/E badly to have any great confidence in the
notion that titles confer competence.
Here, as elsewhere, it is important to think things and not words.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA 01721-1817
USA
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