On 9/12/2013 8:12 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
Tom Conley wroter:
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All due respect, the cost to IBM's customer base for converting all
COBOL executable libraries to PDSE will be measured in millions, if
not billions, of US dollars.
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[With] all due respect again, this is empty rhetoric. The last
Decennial Census, of 2010, yielded a US population aged 5-17 of
53,980,105. Let us now assume, conservatively, that the members of
this group spent an arithmetic mean of US$1.00 per week on junk food
in 2010.
The 'alarming' result? This group spent US$2,806,965,460 on junk food
in 2010! 'Almost' 3 billion dollars wasted! Etc., etc. The
context-free large-numbers gambit is an old one, but it persuades only
the already persuaded.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
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So there's no cost whatsoever to IBM's customer base for converting
COBOL executable libraries from PDS to PDSE? My mistake.
Here are some context-free, large-numbers gambit empty rhetoric numbers.
Let's assume 1000 COBOL licenses in the world, with 100 executable
datasets per license (IMNSHO, ridiculously conservative estimates). So
that's 100,000 executable datasets. I'll set, again, a conservative
estimate of $1,000 to convert the PDS to PDSE. Here is how I break that
down. Planning - 1 hour. Allocating and copying - 1 hour. Change
control paperwork - 2 hours. Implementation - 2 hours.
Post-implementation followup - 2 hours. That's 8 hours at a
fully-burdened rate of $125/hr. I haven't even figured in the cost of
DASD. That's $100M US just to convert this small scenario I've laid out
here.
This is the last time I'll ever respond to a post by John Gilmore.
Regards,
Tom Conley
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