If Receive/Apply/Accept is all that you needed, and you have no newbies in your shop, you may be right. But if you or the newbie need to easily deploy and configure CA software, you'd want the tools to help you get it done quicker. IMHO, of course.
zNorman -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of john gilmore Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 Thursday 10:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: CA's MSM Brian Peterson wrote: <begin quotation> It seems to me that one of the most significant results of this common installation tool initiative is actually not the tool itself. Rather, in my opinion, it is the fact that all of the "tribes" within the CA family now have ONE install methodology - one that is common across all products. <end quotation> This notion is hard, indeed all but impossible to disagree with in general. That said, we have SMP/E in hand; and we are all familiar with it, warts and all. Do we need another quite ordinary installation/maintenance tool? I think not. I should feel different about it if it were radically innovative; it is not. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:W L:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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