So how come my kids can install apps and updates to their Windows and
Mac machines, and I can work with Linux with no formal training? For
example, I don't need to hunt down SYS3.MY2013.PARMLIB(PROG46), I look
in /etc and parms are in standard directories. Even my Android (while
annoying) updates itself from time to time.
z/OSMF isn't the cure though. System standardization might be, but that
would still include IBM dictating how things are done. We accept that
on the other platforms and it seems to solve a lot of problems.
On 5/30/2023 7:24 AM, Shaffer, Terri wrote:
I have to disagree.
First lets talk about the migration guide and how many products an average
customer runs for a z/OS upgrade?
Then how many of the hundreds of actions does any one customer need to actually
perform?
Then, I know many customers, who may apply one RSU once per year and just add
1-2 PTF for break fix, why would I ever want IBM to supply libraries past an
RSU level?
One stop shopping doesn’t allow the flexibility the mainframe has always
provided, IBM should not dictate how I setup my shop.
Lastly, isn’t the actual issue, no-one takes any initiative to learn anymore.
Use the analogy of back in the 80's, how much with IOGENs and everything else
IBM has done over the years to simplify the system programmers tasks.
But now they want GUI/Clicky and removed the interface from the mainframe.
Sorry but I have seen too many lockouts for this to work effectively....
Ms Terri E Shaffer
Senior Systems Engineer,
z/OS Support:
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On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 9:04 AM Colin Paice <colinpai...@gmail.com> wrote:
People feel that z/OSMF is not meeting their needs. Looking at the
positive side....If we wanted to get future z/OS newbies up to speed
very quickly (1
month) What should IBM and us users be doing?
1. Making better use of existing tools? Eclipse ?
2. Simplify the installation process (perhaps download the CST level of
code including SMP/E libraries - so we users do not need to use SMP/E -
just copy the libraries?)
3. Simplify the configuration? (How many configuration parameters are no
longer needed and could just be set to "default")
4. Drive everything from off-platform through Curl?
5. Setting up Racf definitions for a new product can be challenging ...
how can we simplify this - for example products should provide members of
the definitions. It is easier to delete unwanted lines - than type in
definitions.
6. ....
Is there anything easy we/IBM could do to move in the right direction?
Colin
Examine the current system,
create a script to set the equivalent values for z/OSMF?
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