Welcome to the world of the sound byte, where profit means 90-day cash flow and planning means "apres moi le deluge." Times have changed.
The good news is that some of the changes are positive. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Phil Smith III [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 12:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re: What not to do on a z/OS system... Shmuel wrote: >Asking "what can possible go wrong?" is good. Believing that nothing can go >wrong is suicidal. Indeed. Yet so many "production" systems (non-Z) don't take that approach, yet get away with it. Oh, that e-commerce website is down for a half-hour/day/week? That helpdesk is offline because someone pulled a cable (to get back to Matt's post)? No big deal. I don't get it. Are we wrong? Are they wrong? It's easy to be purist, but have times changed?? I like to think not, but the evidence seems otherwise in so many cases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
