Re: QSYSINC library...

[david.kahn@xxxxxxxxxx]

Dennis Lovelady <dennis@lovelady.com> wrote:

>Sounds like a good opportunity to let management earn a couple of bucks.
>That *is* one of the reasons for management to exist: prioritization and
>ensurance of implementation.  Not to mention that it is simply illegal to
>pass that stuff around.  I'd go to management.

Dan,

Dennis is right. Not only is it illegal it's also going to get the sys admin
extremely upset. If I'm looking after a system I get very, very unhappy if
people attempt to install software through the back door. If I were your sys
admin and I were genuinely too busy to install an IBM library (although I have
to admit it's hard to conceive how I could be too busy to execute a fundamental
part of my job function) I would be advising you to get management to tell me to
do it. Management is about the allocation of scarce resources. Make a business
case for the allocation 5-10 minutes of the sys admin's time plus the disk space
consumed versus the cost to your project of not having access to software your
organization has already paid for.

Besides, even from a practical point of view the save file is 54MB. Even zipped
it's going to be a fairly hefty e-mail attachment (speaking hypothetically, of
course). :-)

Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.


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