McKown, John wrote:
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Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:25 PM
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Subject: Re: VSAM / COBOL question - redux (fwd)
Aside from the fact that you might be improving their code :)
I thought you engaged in the splitting exercise to separate Production
from Development. If so, why is a "Production" file being
shared at all.
Make them make a copy.
I totally agree with that idea. But I have been shot down many times.
They feel that the absolutely MUST read the actual Production file. What
they do, at times, is run a test job under their ID to extract
production data. Once they have it working in test, then they create a
"production special" job to actually extract the data to a production
file for some other processing. But they don't want to test their code
against the test data, they test against the production data. I guess so
that they can be sure that it will actually run when presented with the
data in the production file.
Another reason is that management is not being "penny foolish" and
demanding that any DASD allocations be justified. It is difficult to
justify making a copy of production data for testing when the actual
production data can be used instead. At least from what I understand.
Again, I disagree with this philosophy. But I'm just a grunt.
Hmmmm. Memo to self: find out if healthmarkets is used by
my insurer. If so, change insurers.
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