> I have been told that IBM assigns endogenous SRs very low priority. How many times here have you seen an IBMer say "please submit an RCF"?
My feeling (no real basis for this) is that the low priority was near zero. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2021 5:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM RFE's Broken On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 16:41:19 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >Not what I am suggesting. I am not suggesting that coders of a General Ledger >system also be accountants who use it. I am suggesting it at the corporate >level. Use in your enterprise what you sell to your customers. > OK. And they should be empowered to submit SRs and RCFs. I have been told that IBM assigns endogenous SRs very low priority. >Not in every case of course. If IBM brought out a GL system targeted at small >businesses you would not expect IBM to use it internally. > >But you would certainly want developers to be using the same documentation >system that customers were expected to use. > And to submit SRs and RCFs. "We don't need no steenkin' docs! We have the source code." >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2021 11:41 AM > >You're requiring a person who develops, tests, uses, and documents >the product; an unlikely combination of talents. Particularly, most coders >are not good tech writers or are unable to view the product with an >unbiased eye. > >It's a boon when a compiler is implemented in its own source language. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
