On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht <[email protected]> wrote: > John McKown wrote: > >>> 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. > >>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. > > They're (actuaries) stupid/ignorant/time-waster/etc., but Ok, let me keep my > opinion by my self... ;-)
Hum, I like our actuaries. They were the main reason that the z/OS death here was delayed long enough for it to become apparent that "cloud sourcing" was the wrong approach for us. I.e. it let enough customer complaints get registered (some with state gov Dept of Insurance) to become "scary" to the COO. > > >>> 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. > > Just ask them what will they do for numeric fields and date/time fields > during transfers and sorting? That alone is a minefield - guaranteed to keep > them busy well beyond your retirement. > Good question, but I don't think that is causing any problems at present. Personally, for transferring from one platform to another, I like RCF3339 dates (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.ssss) > Like that programmer of you, I will be tired within a nanosecond... > > Sorry for not being able to help you, since I think AFAIK you don't have DB2? > DB2 could be really useful for massaging those VSAM dsn, but you need DB2 on > z/OS and also on a workstation plus a really competent programmer or two... > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht -- 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
