Actually, the coding change would be minimal. As reported, the Governor stated that according to the CA Supreme Court ruling, all employees are to be paid minimum wage when a budget has not been enacted by the Legislature. So, all that must be done is to provide a flag that, when set, resets all wage rates to minimum wage. This can be done immediately following the extraction of the regular wage rates from the tables according to the employees pay grade. Analysis could require a few days, depending on the actual size of the software package (a few tens of thousands of lines? I will take that with a big handful of salt), and coding probably considerably less. Testing would take a few more days, and that is that.
John P. Baker -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pedro Vera Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 5:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Politics - California state computers can't handle pay cut, controller says - sacbee.com I would think the hard part would be to restore the pay to the correct levels afterwards. Pedro Vera phone (408) 463-4812 internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

