My choice would be to stick with SMP/E and not waste the time to create something else. I am not sure what is considered so difficult about SMP (from a customer perspective, I have never been a packager). The only time I find it difficult is when you stick something like Omegamons CICAT in front of it. Those tools to simplify the install only seem to make it harder and take much longer (unless you go with blind faith or do it frequently enough to remember the idiosyncrasies). If there are customization steps in addition to SMP just spell them out and let me do the customization.
Now, of course in some cases a full replacement process may be fast and easy but its more annoying and time consuming to have to know the peculiarities each vendor can come up with for installing/supporting their product(s). If the product is that simple, the SMP install should also be simple (again, I don't know what the packager has to go through to get it ready for me but defining a few SMP data sets then running receive/apply/accept from then on really isn't that big a deal). Remember, you asked for opinions and just about everyone has one :) Greg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
