On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:40:40 -0500, Scott Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hopefully your management is taking a curious look at what SAS features are >being used and how it benefits the enterprise/organization. For example, I >cannot see DFSORT generating a PDF document on z/OS and publishing the >content directly to an HTML-formatted web page. In serious terms, Frank >Yaeger's team at IBM has an incredible product with DFSORT, I must submit. >Input parsing and output-formatting features/enhancements are quite valuable >and are becoming indispensable. Now, if we could offload some DFSORT >processing to a zIIP, Frank? No, to the best of my knowledge, management is looking at the fact that only Tech Services (and some "minor" production use) is using SAS and it is very expensive. Our 2009 budget is being cut by 16 MILLION dollars from the 2008 budget. SAS is a luxury that we can no longer afford. > >Okay, so consider that you may want to use SAS (and MXG) to determine who is >using SAS (various SMF record types for discovery), then go survey those >individuals about what SAS components, specific features, functions, >facilities within SAS are being used. Then, attempt to rank those processes >in 'business importance' terms, so a suitable replacement can be considered, >evaluated, priced, etc. Whomever is using SAS must determine, themselves, how to do the functions which SAS is now doing for them. > > >Scott Barry >SBBWorks, Inc. SAS __is__ going away. "So let it be written! So let it be DONE!" -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
