In a previous role, the systems area happily shared installation/maintenance responsbilities for a few products.
The sysprogs did the tape unload into the site standard data sets (which might be an SMPE process) and then handed over to the next area. This process was most frequently used for DB2 products. Why ? Sysprogs had relevant access to create the new system speedily. Were owners of the "standards" doc ? Had current SMPE knowledge. Then handover to to the DBA's. Who had the relevant DB2 access/knowledge/expertise to the DB2 subsystems. Basically, if the DBA's followed the rules then we were happy. .......and they were nice people and followed the rules. A further point - I found that even experienced sysprogs could get into trouble with SMP/E. I figured in the long run I would save lots of my time doing the donkey work for whoever and then handing over, rather than let someone stuff their CSI's and have to sort it out for them. Cheers Hank ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
