> On Sep 6, 2017, at 12:40 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well into the 1970s, there were legions of IT folks who did not trust VSAM. > There was a droll little ditty of the 'If it...then it's...' type. The last > line went, 'If it...but it doesn't work, then it's VSAM'. > > So is there anyone left who so mistrusts VSAM that they cannot commit to a > technology upgrade? I think that we've finally got past that hang-up. PDSE is > ready for prime time.
The PDSe outage brought the company to its knees. They do NOT want to see the same thing happening again. All the higher up operating officers got their hands slapped and not nicely either. They lost their bonuses and lost vacation time and a few other things that I am not sure of so I won’t speculate. I know that there are some necessary PDSe’s but have hidden that fact from them. My boss told me never to tell anyone that we have some. I think is we ever had another outage for PDSe they would be out shopping for another vendor and I wouldn’t blame them. I would leave if they ever tried to bring in a replacement. They are extremely weary of JAVA as well, I expect then to get over it in time, but I am not going to push it. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
