On 16 Jun 2006 07:25:06 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Peterson) wrote:
Perhaps a few of those folks would post a short
description of their justification technique for SHARE
attendance/participation.
The following is not a premeditated justification for
going to Share. However, the anecdote may help others
justify Share attendance.
We had to migrate in a new client. Even with the
expensive ISV RACF utilities, it was going to take the
security crew longer to convert the profiles than we had
(i.e. weeks). I told the security person that I happened
to pick up several RACF utilities at a previous Share, and
showed him where I put them. Because of the learning
curve, I think it wasn't done until three days
later. They've been used quite a number of times,
since. You can do your own computation of man-hours saved
and money per man-hour.
Those utilities were something I just picked up at
SCIDS. Yes, they're available on the web (now), but I
wouldn't have known about them if I hadn't gone to
Share. And, this is just one of those random pieces of
knowledge picked up *between* sessions. Further, while
IBM-Main is a great community, nothing beats actually
meeting some of these high-powered people in the flesh.
Share also fills in what a co-worker talks about as
"fourth quadrant knowledge". "You don't know what you
don't know." You pick up a lot at a Share meet about what
you didn't even know existed, and therefore would never
have thought to ask about. Some of it is never used; some
of it can be a life-saver (as those RACF utilities were).
BTW, I hadn't been picked for Share for about 2
years. I went to the very next Share meet.
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