On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:29:08 +0000, Roy Hewitt wrote: > >My point was about the structure of the way the system is set up, names etc.. >I mentioned the fact >that IBM took years to finally get rid of version numbers in dataset names. >Anyone who knew what > Java is still burdened with version numbers. At least they could support a symlink, without version numbers, to the production version.
>with all this flexibility, but look how complicated and unwieldy it is. Yes, >you get to find you way > around it eventually, but it must be a nightmare for 1st time users to try > and decide what to use >for names and they have no idea if what they choose is going to make it >difficult next time around. >But what can IBM do now? They have allowed all this flexibility, and now need >to support all the >plethora of dataset names at each and every site. And remember that was my >original point.. too much >flexibility, so much so that it can become a burden. Wouldn't it be so much >easier to know that >ISP.SISPPENU (et al for the other ~1000 datasets) were called that always and >everywhere and you > And yet it has been argued here, foolishly, IMO, that site naming conventions must take priority over vendor naming conventions. (I believe the argument was, "One must have standards.") >Take a look at other OS, and I'm not saying their install process is >necessarily good, but..and its >a big but, they each use a standard layout. Maybe it's because nearly every >other OS uses a >hierarchical directory structure, but it certainly makes it a hell of a lot >easier to know that when > Heck, levels in data set names could be used to simulate a hierarchy. Might require JCL symbols to achieve the effect of "current working directory". >your looking for xyz, you'll find it in /usr/lib ..etc.. (no pun intended ;-) >) or wherever its >supposed to live. > I'll moderate my Firefox example. Periodically, I go to mozilla.com and fetch the install package and archive it. And I do have a few generations of bootable whole-drive backups. I'm pondering how to upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard because I now have 3 applications I can't upgrade because of downlevel OS. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
