Ed, That is just so Dilbert... What is Wally's purpose in life? Now why didn't we just do this for Y2K?
Assuming you actually knew everyone that you would have to send an e-mail to so your ass was well and truly covered, how would you know what to tell them without actually doing any research? Would you simply say "We are converting from 3380 to 3390 in 65 days. Please convert all your applications by then." In the CYA realm that would be like wiping your butt with confetti! If you don't have time for the luxury of research, why not hire a contractor from WIPRO to do it. It would cost less than having a outage wouldn't it? Ron I'm sure you proudly put this migration technique in your resume! > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ed Gould > Sent: Wednesday, 22 March 2006 3:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Data conversion from 3380 to 3390 - H E L P > > On Mar 20, 2006, at 11:39 PM, Ron and Jenny Hawkins wrote: > > > Ed, > > > > Agreed, and that is why SMF records are your second best friend :) > > > -------------------SNIP----------------------- > > Its always easy to sit back and spend the copious amounts of time > researching for this stuff. I have never had the luxury of having the > time. Sure some amount of research is needed but to spin through a > years worth of SMF tapes was a luxury I did not have. I found if I > knew a conversion was eminent (1-2 months) I would issue a memo and > if they didn't correct the data sets I would move them anyway. > > Sure IDMS wouldn't correctly come up but I had CYA'd myself. The > people knew I didn't send out these memo's unless it was A. going to > happen and B. The problem would be their problem if the files > weren't correctly identified and fixed before hand. C. The next time > they would have to be in at 3AM with me to hand hold their special > data sets. > > That stopped a lot of griping and finger pointing. > > Ed > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
