> On Sep 25, 2017, at 4:36 AM, Bill Wilkie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ed: > > > Did you find out why they were updating things each time they ran? I wonder > if their updating had to do with keeping usage statistics.
It was a little of both. They had some report program that read the dataset and produces a 1 page report (it wasn’t documented). That also from time to time ran the report program for their “own” usage, as far as I could tell they never talked about charging on usage. They would ask one of the programmers to run the job for them, keeping the DC out of the loop. We used to have a weekly lunch where all sorts of information was passed around (as well as some wine) where we got this information. Ed > > > Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
