Au contraire. If you *thought* that it would have all of those negative effects, would you kill it without consulting with those in a better position to know? A marketing executive is not likely to know how much of a conversion effort it would be.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 9:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PARM= vs PARMDD= and symbol substitution If "typical Blue thinking of the age" is meant to be a sneer, I don't see it. If I thought a change I was proposing would involve a HUGE conversion effort, or a customer revolt - either one, to say nothing of both - I don't care how much better I thought it might be; it would have to be an optional addition, not a replacement. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* If "compassionate conservative" is an oxymoron, then so is "liberal values". -John Aul (j...@symon.com), quoted in A Word A Day */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Monday, March 30, 2020 19:55 ....The marketing team were horrified. "We can't sell this to our customers, it would be a HUGE conversion effort for them and they will revolt and buy someone else's systems!"....Typical Blue thinking of the age (mid-to-late 1970's I think). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
