On 15/08/2023 10:09 am, Jon Perryman wrote:
This is z/OS with SYSPROGS, not Unix with sysadmins where programmers have full control to define reasonable. You keep asking the wrong question. Who (not what) determines reasonable. Right or wrong, it is their job, not yours. If you can't give up control of sysprog duties, then z/OS is not the OS for you.
I started on MVS in 1991, so it's a bit late to tell me that. I've *been* the storage admin.
Without evidence to the contrary, its a good idea to assume the fact that your colleagues are being paid means that they are doing work valuable to the business, and it's not the storage admin's job to veto it because it requires too much DASD space.
Its the storage admin's job to make sure that other people are not prevented from doing their work due to a lack of disk space. It's one of those jobs where the better you do, the less people know you're there.
Disk space is cheap. Data is valuable. People are expensive. Don't waste expensive people time managing empty space. Spend your time looking after the valuable data, and have enough free space that people don't need to stop what they are doing and set up a meeting with the storage admin group.
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