RE: Consultants who have to work on junk equipment -- MIDRANGE-L

I took over as the Director of IT at a company which had not had a backup 
in about a year.  God help them if they had a hardware failure.  I was only 
able to convince them to allow one save because they were a 24/7 shop and 
they weren't willing to be off for an hour.  I made it a full sys/nonsys 
which took all of 3 hours just so that they would have something to go back 
to.  This company was almost totally paperless.

Judging by those decisions made by upper management, is it any surprise 
that some of the other decisions caused the company to close?

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From:   Evan Harris[SMTP:spanner@ihug.co.nz]
Reply To:       MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Sent:   Tuesday, November 17, 1998 11:18 PM
To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject:        Re: Consultants who have to work on junk equipment


Chuck Wrote:

<SNIP>

>The other REAL brain-dead deal was "GRTOBJAUT *ALL *ALL, etc."
>to solve their compile and authority problems rather than figuring out the
REAL
>reasons. Believe it or not, I LOST this argument. Needless to say, any of
you out
>there that know your stuff could have a FIELD day with this system...

<SNIP>

I believe it.

Right now I'm working on a system where the "development manager" who
spends most of his time coding, will buy the argument that developers
should have Secofr class profiles on the production machine, because
authorities "stop them from doing their jobs".

This is the same guy that agrees that job logging can cause users
inconvenience when working with spool files because the programmers don't
know the difference between a WRKSBMJOB *JOB and a WRKSBMJOB *USER, so
nothing is logged.

This is the same guy who can't work out how I changed the QSECOFR password
from a generic publicly known password, by submitting a job under his job
description - which has his user profile in the USRPRF parameter and is
publicly accessible.

This is the same guy that turned journalling off on a 40 million record
file that was not backed up, but the journals were, because it was "doing
something funny to logical files". And also forgot to tell me he had turned
it off.

Thi is the same guy that doesn't really see the problem with users having
JOBCTL and SPLCTL authorities.

I could go on for hours about the other stupidities perpertrated on a
machine that has 200 gig of disk, like the fact that they didnt have any
kind of backup to speak of when I got there... but I won't.

What has this got to do with the thread ? hmm not a lot.. but Chuck touched
a nerve I guess...

Cheers.
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