On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:06 AM, Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll state the obvious...... > Can this "massage it in Excel" be determined to program it to just update it > on z/OS ??
I doubt it. The actuaries tend to do a lot of what I consider "ad hoc messing around" to look at things. Also, they tend to want to "do it themselves" since none of our programmers are statisticians or actuaries. I don't blame them for this attitude. I often have the "just let me do it myself, I know what I want". Also, they tend to look at data one way, and that give them an idea about a different way to look at the data. They don't want to have to put in a request and get it approved, then coded, before they can get their new view. It's kind of like a surgeon doing "exploratory surgery". They can't really tell you before hand exactly what they are going to do because the goal changes minute by minute as they explore. > Seems like that would eliminate a bunch of CPU cycles transferring back and > forth and storage to just formally figure out what the "massaging" is. > > Thanks, > > Tom Savor > Software Developer, Sr > FRMS-SCM > Fiserv -- If you look around the poker table & don't see an obvious sucker, it's you. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
