On Nov 28, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/26/2007
at 10:52 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
I concur with your opinion. HOWEVER since IBM (last time I tried)
does
not make the requirements data base public it is difficult to figure
out if something was proposed and how it fared voting wise at SHARE.
Further, public discussion helps in situations where IBM has told
multiple
customers that they are the only ones with a requirement. There's
nothing
like officially concurring with an existing requirement to blow that
excuse out of the water.
Excellent point Shmuel!:
I have seen this (especially on here) quite a few times (and on other
lists and when talking with IBM). To me it is a cliche. Since we
can't "prove" it we can't rebut it (unless you were the person that
submitted the requirement and saw the results when they were
presented back at SHARE). When I did requirements (for GUIDE) I kept
a copy for my files but there is an side issue about req's that are
for say MVS and I had the req's for storage.
The only way to prove that a req has been submitted if you have the #
and since the database is not available you cannot respond.
It would be "nice" if they were in DB format but I would think that
a .PDF would do as well if the search engine (which is/are available)
no special coding needed. So the argument that it would take too much
manpower or $ is really a non argument. All they would have to do is
to be scanned in which a non technical person could do probably it
for say $8-$10 a page or a lot less if say done online at SHAREs web
site before the meeting (The dollar figure was arrived at from a
professional person who does this stuff for a living). So, if there
were say 100 requirements per SHARE and say 25 were done online
(almost zero cost) so say $750 and three times a year say a total of
$2300 it could be done for. Presto a SHARE requirements searchable
database.
Ed
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