On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:35:18 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote:
>>REGION is one of those things that should not be left to application JCL to manager properly. > >I disagree (strongly) with that statement! >Tech Support is there to help, not control! > >Yes. The config is a technical issue; the reason it's there is to support the business, ie, appdev. > >They know better than tech supp what is needed. > The app person knows their application - something narrow in scope. The sysprog's job is to look at the big picture - the entire OS. The application person isn't expected to understand the OS internals and controls like a sysprog (or sysadmin for other platforms). Don't look at IEFUSI as "control", look at it as helping or setting a global option / default. The same can be said of many other things on the platform. For example, DASD (SMS) and security. The app developer knows what is required for their application to be secure, but it's up to the security people to implement controls that protect the OS on whole or to set options that might keep an application from getting in trouble. The app person knows how much space he needs for their file, but may not understand how allocating the space will affect other applications running on the system. Some control is taken away (like a specific volume to allocate) in order to benefit everyone and simplify operations and maintenance of the entire system. -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
