Searching Piles of Mainframe Data

Now that sounds like a nice capability. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to quickly search through the steaming mounds of code stored out there in your mainframe environment? It might make our jobs easier by making data that is currently somewhat difficult to traverse, easier to navigate.

But upon reading a little more closely, look at the stupid (IMHO) example they provide: Another example...was helping a human resources department determine which programmers to lay off....(they)could enter a programmer's ID into the search engine and find out one programmer had written 500 pieces of code and the other had written 20, so HR could make a better decision on which employee to keep.

Really? Would you rather keep the programmer who wrote 500 simple little programs, or the one who wrote 20 mission-critical programs that run the business? Simplistic (and poorly thought-out) examples like this irritate the heck out of me. How about you?