No, no, Bill. You're mistaken. That never happens. People are much too ethical for that.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:41 AM, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> wrote: > >When the MVS RAS group originally tracked me down and called me up ... I > thought they were going to ask me for help on correcting all the > problems ... but the first thing they wanted to know was who my > management chain was ... I then realized I was going to be in trouble > ... they didn't actually want to know how to fix things ... they were > interested in much more important things. > > One of the much more important things, as Lynn Wheeler has mentioned in > earlier posts, to any given highly placed executive is the maximization of > his own compensation under whatever specific details are in his signed > contract with his employer. Sometimes such people make decisions that > maximize their own immediate compensation at the long-term minimization of > other less important things, such as the continued existence of > the employer. > > Bill Fairchild > Nolensville, TN > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Anne & Lynn Wheeler" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 10:23:43 AM > Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems > > > one of the side-effects was that some of the organizations started > carefully managing information up the executive chain ... any reference > to MVS MTBF of 15mins (even internal only) would have disturbed a > carefully managed image. > > When the MVS RAS group originally tracked me down and called me up ... I > thought they were going to ask me for help on correcting all the > problems ... but the first thing they wanted to know was who my > management chain was ... I then realized I was going to be in trouble > ... they didn't actually want to know how to fix things ... they were > interested in much more important things. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
