Quasar wrote:First, there are always a few modules at any shop, that do not have the source code.
dick scherrer wrote:No, there are not always modules with missing source. . . If this has happened, either there are no proper procedures in place or someone or group is not following the proper processes that are in place.
I 100% agree with Dick. Quasar's comment, nothing personal intended at the level of my example here, is like saying "there's always sometimes you don't use the toilet paper".
It's not always just us, and sheer damn pride and professionalism. In many banking, insurance and other finanacial businesses, you will have no choice. You will have internal audit, compliance, external audit and regulators. If you have a program in production that you don't have the source for, then 1) your job is in danger and 2), for the last two groups at least, even the company can be in some danger (a "qulification" to the annual accounts is a serious thing).
Sheesh. We used to file the date/time stamp of production compile to prove that we had the right
program listing. We had a copy of the production source, and the production department had copies of the production source. We had daily, weekly, monthly and annual back-ups. The annual back-ups (on the date of the formal production of the company accounts) were kept for seven years. It would have been extremely difficult to even
deliberately remove a source.
OK, I once saw someone loose a source in develpment. It seems two guys, curiously, both called "Doug", hit the save key in ISPF on the same PDS and close enough to the identical time that we ended up with two copies of one program and no copies of the other. Except for the previous nights' back-up of course. Source returned. "Missing" for 15 minutes.
