John,
We had a standard that nothing went into production that couldn't be
completely supported by the programmer.
Having said that we did have IBM utilities in production and of
course some vendor utilities in production.
How we handled it if it was a IBM utility I (or someone in the
systems group) would help debugging it. BUT in 30 years I never had
an issue with any IBM utility (we had one or two nasty syncsort bugs
but that is slightly different, IMO).
The vendor utilities were only allowed if it were say DB type utility
and the DB people would help the the people out.
We would not allow CBT tape programs anywhere near production.
We once had a "professional" give out this one utility and it was
used in testing. It broke and I was called and saw what it was I
called the VP and it was never heard or seen after that.
Any program that made it into production was "OWNED" by the person
whose name was on it. He/she had to be able to debug it on their own.
Ed
On Oct 3, 2013, at 10:34 AM, John McKown wrote:
In my experience, eventually almost anything useful becomes production
critical. Some programmer will eventually get their hands on it and
integrate it directly into a mission critical process.
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:15 AM, David Griffiths
<david.griffi...@gmail.com>wrote:
On 3 October 2013 15:59, Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com>
wrote:
I have several downloads I use from the CBT Tape. But I do not
incorporate them into a production - if this dies the system dies -
process. If the tool I have from the CBT TAPE dies, it does not
impact
anything but my statistics or analysis functions.
Do you think that - along the lines of the CBT Tape - that there is
much of a potential market for non-production-critical tools? For
instance a company buying a $99 copy of Python for their log
processing needs?
Cheers,
Dave
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