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There are other ways to prevent the developers and DBA people to
get their work done, although the test LPARs are fine ... for example:

forbid the access to production data by (legitimate) legal issues, which
everybody understands, but: the test data provided (which has gone
through an anonymization process) is so bad, that testing the applications
is not possible any more, due to inconsistencies and irrelevant test data.

So the DBA people and developers find ways to do the tests on
copies of production data (on special LPARs), which has legal issues,
and many problems with respect to availability and access time
(you have to wait weeks !! before you can get a test running there etc.)

like below:

<quote>

it was something like a psychiatric disorder, in corporate terms, even
though intellectually, rationally, everybody knew this pattern was madness.

</quote>

Kind regards

Bernd



Am 08.01.2015 um 08:53 schrieb T.S.:
> Also, if they are running things in production that they shouldn't be, find
> out if they're doing that because they're starved for resources elsewhere
> (i.e. in development or test). If that's another problem, fix that, too.
> Maybe solving that problem requires a conversation with IBM and some other
> parties.
>
> People have to get their (legitimate) work done, and that includes
> developers and DBAs.
>
> I recall one customer that starved its non-production users so badly that
> it was something like a psychiatric disorder, in corporate terms, even
> though intellectually, rationally, everybody knew this pattern was madness.
> We ended up working with the customer to come up with a mutually agreeable
> and very effective solution that kept the customer from repeatedly cutting
> themselves. :-) It's best not to speculate about the exact solution, but
> "talk to your doctor" if merited.
>

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