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You hit it on the nail head. I have seen so called sysprogs do things
by the book and never ask any questions. I have on occasion gone over
the install and found questions that *SHOULD* have been asked by the
sysprog. I am talking about SVC's and or replacement of IBM modules
with the vendor modules and/or front ending IBM modules.
I took a senior sysprog to task for such a attitude and got back the
attitude well they needed it installed. On another occasion a ex
sysprog (now a capacity planner) tried to sneak some APF libraries
and other parmlib changes into production. I went ballastic and went
to his boss and asked about ownership of parmlib and got back the
attitude. He owned the system he was VP of operations. I walked
straight up to auditing and squealed on the VP. He was called onto
the carpet for it and he was really pissed at me. He had to come over
and apologize. I just ragged on him some more for not going through
change control. It delayed the installation by a week. I was not
happy at all. I asked for the sysprog (ex) privileges be taken away
and they were to an extent. He didn't think I kept track but I did.
He tried something again a few months later and I caught him red
handed. I again took it straight to the auditor and the VP was fired.
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We took a slightly different approach, Ed. ALL private SVC's and modules
that front-ended or replaced IBM modules had to be provided to us in
source form, with all macros, etc. required for assembly. NDA's were
properly executed and code was provided, or we didn't buy the product.
Period. The entire Systems staff then reviewed the source code and if we
saw something that didn't look right, the vendor had to explain, in
written detail, just what was going on in the code. Some vendors hated
us for this; others cooperated, however grudgingly.
Wish I could use some of what I learned, but those DNA's are, to my
knowledge, still in effect.
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