On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 18:47 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: > ----------------------------------<snip>----------------------------------- > > >I have been looking at CMF vs. RMF as a question. > > > >Is there any pros or cons between the two? Any other products besides CMF > >that competes with RMF on the mainframe? > > > > > --------------------------------<unsnip>----------------------------------- > CMF is a wonderful product but it's very maintenance-sensitive, not only > for itself but for the rest of the system as well. It uses a number of > hooks that it places in z/OS code when it starts and removes during > shutdown. If there's a maintenance mis-match, you could be looking at a > system outage. BTDT GTSS. > > My choice is to stick with RMF. The numbers aren't as detailed but the > risks are FAR lower. > > Rick
I guess that I've been lucky. We've used CMF ever since I've been at my current job - almost 20 years now. You're right about keeping the maintenance up, but Boole & Babbage (original) and BMC are very good at it. Of course, we are __never__ bleeding edge. Closer to "don't upgrade until the old release is almost unsupported and only put on PTFs for specific problems when then occur." I do receive all maintenance, but rarely do any APPLYs unless it is to solve a problem that we have personally experienced. We're so behind the times in how we do things that this works well for us. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
