Ed, I had the pleasure of visiting a shop in Jakarta where I helped them convert to SMS 5 years ago. These guys were so in touch with their requirements that the ACS routines, Classes and STORGRUPS are 99% unchanged after half a decade.
Just show how planning can make for "past good experiences." Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ed Gould > Sent: Saturday, 11 February 2006 11:13 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Disk dataset allocation within a pool defined by esoteric > > On Feb 10, 2006, at 8:57 PM, Ambat Ravi Nair wrote: > > > fear of the unknown ... > > > > at my previous work site, the STGADMIN gods simply refused to > > believe in SMS, because of some "past bad experiences"; i'd guessed > > they didn't set it up properly then. > > > > > > - ravi. > > > > I was at another installation and they were forced screaming into the > SMS world for PDSE's and the like. They had a product that the > storage admins loved and heaven help you if you said try SMS. Their > product worked reasonably well, but since SMS = IBM it was bad. > > Ed > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
