On 24/08/2025 8:40 am, Tom Brennan wrote:
Start imitating the installation methods on Windows/Apple/Android. Anybody can do installs on those platforms. Nobody changes the directory/file-names. Managers who use those systems wonder what's wrong with us when we say a product install is going to take a week or more.
Agree. There should be a standard for system layout, system dataset names etc. which also defines ISV software standards. It would ultimately simplify things for customers, ISVs and IBM.
Microsoft dictated a standard directory structure and it greatly simplifies writing software installation procedures, and makes it simpler and more predictable for the end user.
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