Talk about a Deja Vu moment! I read this article and my own career flashed before my eyes. I spent 8 years at Piedmont Airlines/US Airways as a Capacity Planner for their Mainframe MVS and TPF systems. We lived on SMF data and used it to reduce hardware expenditures by locating the programs that were heavy on the resource usage, modifying them to use less.
I started using SAS in 1977 and have continuously use it at every job I have been in since. I was always intrigued by how I could do things so simply compared to Cobol's verbose nature and Fortran's finicky nature. Having my Master's in Statistics, I understood the value of having a reliable tool like SAS in my professional life. If a company did not have SAS, I made them get me a copy so I could do the job they hired me to do.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Randy Wagner
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