Hi Steve, Thanks for your answer! Also, more specifically, for IBM software itself..... Is it possible? Or is it an IBM requirement? Just curious, as it was asked of me. Not planning on doing it without SMPe! To use IEBUPDTE IEBCOPY.....you end up doing manually what SMPe does automatically in the first place! thanks Bill On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:13:01 -0400, Steve Thompson <ste...@wkyr.net> wrote:
>On 3/14/2023 8:40 AM, Bill Giannelli wrote: >> Just curious, is it possible and do some companies NOT use SMPe for z/OS >> software updates? >> thanks >> Bill > >I take it from your question that you have software provided by >third parties and do not see an associated CSI for them? > >Yes, there are some companies that provide updates via IEBUPDTE, >and IEBCOPY, sometimes using ZAP. Don't know how many of those >are still viable today. > >Steve Thompson > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
