I believe that those who disagree with me and I are arguing at cross purposes. Testing is essential, but repetitive atomic testing is seldom valuable. In shops where it is the norm production ABENDs and job reruns occur anyway.
Some shops known to me have long since eliminated non-system PDSs, replacing them with PDSEs. I have indeed assisted with this process on, I find, five occasions. Others have found arguments, compelling for them, to avoid PDSEs all but completely. This is unfortunate but not unexpected. There have been voices here, respected ones, assuring us that they have done this conversion without interesting incident; but they have been largely ignored. I have made no secret of my view that the management of too many mainframe shops is compulsively risk-averse, suspiciously unanimous in its rejection of innovation, in a word, reactionary. These attitudes are destroying the mainframe, has perhaps already done so. I do not really expect my rhetoric to change them, but I shall continue to make my views clear in concrete situations in which it seems to me appropriate to do so. 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
