Steve Cunningham wrote:
Haven't we all ready been there & done that with CA-ACTIVATOR back in the 80's. That was going to change the mainframe software installation also as I remember. Even after CA switched to SMP for installs they never kept the prereq's and co-reps current as it seemed everytime there was something that required a BYPASS. That destroyed the whole SMP structure to me, which kinda made it useless to use it for there products. So I guess add 1 more OEM vendor product install method to the list and wait for it to bite more of their installs.
Mainframe 2.0 provides a generalized framework that any ISV or product supplier can plug into. It does not replace SMP/E. (Of course, ensuring the correctness of service (PTFs) would be the responsibility of the enabled product, not the framework.)
I plan to take a good hard look at this in the near future. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
