Ed, You state "vendors ignore customers quite often." Realize that vendors have more than one customer, and doing things EXACTLY as you like may cause problems for the bulk of the other customers (or, often, for one or two huge customers), and therefore, the vendor does not make the change requested. Also, customers frequently ignore vendor (including IBM) recommendations. For example, how many times have Peter Relson or Jim Mulder pointed out that doing thinks like deleting linklist datasets while the system thinks they are in use is A BAD idea, yet people still do it.
Wayne Driscoll Product Developer JME Software LLC NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: REGION=0M and LSQA On Dec 12, 2007, at 2:34 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >> no 2 shops are likely to interpret REGION=0 the same > (unless they share exits) so a vendor suggesting REGION=0 doesn't > really know what it is recommending. ("Somewhat unlimited", I guess.) > > The vendor may know. > Instead of accepting (or rejecting) a vendor recommendation, ask. > Find out why the reco is out there. > Ask and negotiate! > > Ted: It doesn't work that way. Vendors ignore customers quite often. The only way it changes if there are choices. I have goaded management into switching software vendors quite often because of the bad attitude of the vendors. I also make sure the vendors know why we are leaving them. Off topic, IIRC you use a blackberry can you see email attachments on it? Just curious. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
