$13,000 in "soft" dollars is infinitely more than $13,000 in "hard" dollars. And the "takes a lot of IF statements to make one MSU" is true. And we execute a LOT of IF statements, when aggregated across all executions of all programs in a year.
In theory, I agree with you. In a shop which is more normal than ours, it would be stupid. In our shop, it not only is "as directed", it shows a "commitment to frugality" mindset. Which impresses management. Kind of like "goes the extra mile". More political than technical. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 4:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is there an Enterprise COBOL API to detect > SOURCE-COMPUTER "WITH DEBUGGING" on or off at runtime? > > Takes a lot of IF statements to equal one MSU. > > Does not take a heck of a lot of programmer time to equal $13,000. > > Charles > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of McKown, John > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 1:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is there an Enterprise COBOL API to detect > SOURCE-COMPUTER > "WITH DEBUGGING" on or off at runtime? > > Most probably do not care. We do. You'd be amazed at the > things we do to > reduce our MSU requirements. Programmers are a "fixed cost". > From what I've > been told, if we could reduce our Group Capacity by 1 MSU, we > would save > $13,000/yr, in "hard" dollars. So we would spend many "soft" > dollars to do > this. I'd best say no more. > > -- > John McKown > Systems Engineer IV > IT > > Administrative Services Group > > HealthMarkets(r) > > 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 > (817) 255-3225 phone * > [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com > > Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain > confidential or > proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of > the original > message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products > underwritten and > issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. > -The Chesapeake > Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of > TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Mills > > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 2:54 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Is there an Enterprise COBOL API to detect > > SOURCE-COMPUTER "WITH DEBUGGING" on or off at runtime? > > > > Could you have a switch that was set to 'X' by default but > to 'Y' by a > > debugging statement, and then your "if not debugging" test > is switch > > NE 'Y'. > > > > Do we really need to care about CPU cycles for a debugging "IF"? > > > > Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, send email > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
