Paul,
Sigh... there is "installed" and then there is INSTALLED. No
application programmer would/should be granted access to update to
any system library if that is what you complaining about too bad, If
you are talking SMPE Again the smpe libraries are essentially keys.
Now they are OK for an auditor or management to READ them but NOT for
lowly programmers. If you want SMPE for the average joe programmer
again the answer should be NO. There are some things (albiet few
things) that application should not be using.
Ed
On Jul 23, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On 2013-07-23, at 08:53, Skip Robinson wrote:
I understand the appeal of the quick-and-dirty download-and-go
approach,
particularly for a consultant brought to town for a product
install. It's
fast, it's tidy, and it's over before the smoke clears. Then bye-
bye to
Ms. C, who moves on to the next town in dire need of a competent
sheriff.
But life goes on in each town. Next month or next year, some fix or
enhancement is required. Who will do that and how? Who will know--or
remember--exactly what state the product was left in after the last
dust-up?
And if Ms. C were to oblige the customer and perform an installation
with SMP/E, she'd have to be granted the special privileges now
needed for SMP/E, over and above the authority to modify the data
sets actually needed for the product. Will auditors be entirely
happy with that?
Grrr. I suppose Ms. C can back-seat drive for a member of the
systems staff with suitable privileges.
-- gil
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