Also, if they are running things in production that they shouldn't be, find out if they're doing that because they're starved for resources elsewhere (i.e. in development or test). If that's another problem, fix that, too. Maybe solving that problem requires a conversation with IBM and some other parties.
People have to get their (legitimate) work done, and that includes developers and DBAs. I recall one customer that starved its non-production users so badly that it was something like a psychiatric disorder, in corporate terms, even though intellectually, rationally, everybody knew this pattern was madness. We ended up working with the customer to come up with a mutually agreeable and very effective solution that kept the customer from repeatedly cutting themselves. :-) It's best not to speculate about the exact solution, but "talk to your doctor" if merited. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
