(sorry if multiple posts appear - changed newsreader - sigh)
SMARTMVS was developed in Europe just about the time IBM was making the
MVS CBIPO ready for delivery (1984/85). If was picked up by Software CE
and distributed to customers (free of charge - even to non-Share members
:-). Weekly updates of HOLD Data. As a first the distribution contained
++HOLDs for ++FUNCTIONs (to get attention to possible installation
issues) - required you to receive HOLDs after SMP/E receive of new products.
The trigger for development was actually an (IBM) internal debate over
software maintenance philosophy. It was described in a redbook written
later on the subject of 'MVS Software Management'.
Birger Heede
IBM Software Group
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John,
What was SmartMVS? I don't recall ever hearing about that. Or maybe I
just forgot. Was that something you had to pay for? Maybe it was one
of those things only available at Share. (A little humour).
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. Systems Programmer
P&H Mining Equipment
414-671-7849
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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From: John Eells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:18 pm
Subject: Re: IBM APAR
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
John Eells wrote:>
I should have mentioned, though, that SMARTMVS, on which Enhanced
HOLDDATA was built, was around well before that. (SMARTMVS,
including some SMP/E extensions, was available through your
friendly IBM SE at the time. I'm reliably told that it dated
from 1984-ish.)
--
John Eells
z/OS Technical Marketing
IBM Poughkeepsie
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