Re: What's an iASP?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul:

I frequently use "Z" in the first position of object Agile creates to
assist in the management of the system, mainly it's to push the objects to
the bottom of any lists like WRKACTJOB, WRKSBS etc.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Musselman, Paul <
pmusselman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> JOBDs are cheap!  Most of the third-party applications we have use custom
> JOBDs!
>
> It also means that any application defaults won't foul up one of our
> pre-existing JOBDs.
>
> Besides, our JOBDs do not (for the most part) use the 'as-shipped' JOBDs.
>
> A lot of apps also run in their own subsystems, with custom routing etc.
> etc.  Once again, so they don't trip over any of our settings.
>
> One issue we had-- we name things that are ready to be deleted but we're
> not 100% sure with a Z as the first character.  After the renamed objects
> aren't missed during month ending they get archived off to tape and are
> then deleted.  Who'd name their stuff with a Z?  Well, one application
> did.  So now the description of those libraries begins with "DO NOT DELETE!"
>
> Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Oberholtzer
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> Subject: Re: What's an iASP?
>
> Reasonable explanation.  That said, there are reasons for many of the job
> description setting that multiple customers will all have set different
> based on how they run their system and the software suite.  Why not honor
> them and spend the time to get software working so that customization of
> work management options will not mess it up.  It's not that hard.
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects
>
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