McKown, John wrote:
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Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:47 AM
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Subject: Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation
I would love that. I suggested that. I was shot down. Them:
"Nobody to maintain it." Me: "I'll do it." Them: "Not your
job function!"
It's not your job function to maintain supporting
documentation about how you do your job?
Yes, but not with that method. We have a method (the PDS version
previously mentioned) which "works well". So maintaining a Wiki or CMS
(Content Management System) is unnecessary. And, to be honest, I'm
likely the only one in the group who likes the idea. Curiously, I'm the
second oldest (55).
--
John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
Administrative Services Group
Information Technology
...
Sometimes simple is best.
We also have some critical MVS recovery information that is maintained
in a PDS on the mainframe. Every night we have a batch job that
converts the PDS into XMIT format and downloads it to a file server into
a directory where it and some other critical recovery information (e.g.,
info to recatalog the DR tapes, other DR documentation, etc.) is
combined and burned to a nightly DR CD that goes off site with the daily
MVS DR tapes. With PC freeware tools like XMIT Manager you can directly
view and utilize the EBCDIC content of such a PDS XMI file from a
workstation. Much cheaper and more convenient than making a hard copy
listing, and availability of the most current version is guaranteed for
DR. The locally retained copy on the file server can also be accessed
if MVS is down.
In a DR situation, I also don't want any of my critical MVS recovery
info or MVS documentation to be dependent on recovery of any non-MVS
platform.
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Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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