Interesting: I suspect that nowadays the words "only testing" or "only development" will play differently. It's my contention that increasingly getting function out the door is part of a company's attempt to compete.
I wonder how many companies will be able to defer Development / Test going forwards. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Bob Shannon <bshan...@rocketsoftware.com> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date: 08/05/2014 13:55 Subject: Re: Mainframe (in general) running at 100% not always a bad thing Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> I used to work at an insurance company that refused to add capacity. When we ran quarterly processing, later changed to monthly processing, the machine was pegged for a day or two. We couldn't do any testing because production sucked up all of the resources. The processor and software continued to work fine during that period, it was only test work that suffered. Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
