On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:08:34 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: >Yous [sic] premise that ServerPac is somehow exemplary might be your opinion [..]
Thus the <rant> and </rant>. I have not yet had the priviledge of installing the aforementioned product, but I hear from my teammates it's not too shabby, though some recent maintenance packaging was openly questioned (addressed promptly and thoroughly :) ... There are other good product installers out there, IMHO. BTW, when did you move to NY? >Keep in mind that ServerPac is an SMP/E "bypass". It _restores_ SMP/E >zones rather than installing into them. This might be OK for a complete >reinstall of z/OS. But, I submit that this is *not* the preferred, >optimal -- or even necessarily the "correct" -- way to add a product to >an existing pre-configured system! Interesting choice of words. I used to look at it as an add-on, but "bypass" has merit. Certainly for individual products, simple SMP/E packaging or PDO works. Even z/OS upgrades might do better with PDO or ServerPac "lite" (system refresh). For those of us that don't do a great job of tidying up, periodic system replace can be a good thing. While I'm not sold on the CSI/Zone restore/replace either, I do consider *most* of the rest of ServerPac exemplary, yes. >[..]How great would it be if you could install software on z/OS with the same >ease as on other platforms? Nerdvana. On the flip side, there is job security to consider... >http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/autonomic/library/ac-sivalue/ Interesting reading, thanks for sharing. A shame IBM is dragging it's feet - I'm sure there are reasons, the likes of which *customers* may never understand. Regards, Art Gutowski Ford Motor Company IT Infrastructure zSeries Platform Planning, Build & Operations [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
