Peter, To me 'experimental' is never pejorative. An experiment queries the environment to make date-driven decisions.
We do, however, disagree about the proper treatment of the INTRDR or, indeed, any other tool. If you do not want some job submitted via the INTRDR to update a file you protect that file and you do not interdict the use of the INTRDR. Another way to make the same point is to recall that the INTRDR is not a new facility. It is in fact a very old one, and a scheduling product or security scheme that is unaware of it is 1) poorly designed and 2) should not be used. In my now long experience shops that use scheduling products inflexibly, while they may meet their notional workload-control goals, in fact lose 1) control of what is really going on and 2) relevance. Decision-support and extrernal-reporting requirements are moved outside its purview. It is left with tight control over routine applications that are of interest only when they falter. There are no bureaucratic, 'management' solutions to technical problems that do not involve unacceptable abnegation. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
