In the brave new world of z/OSMF, we're approaching that... On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM Andrew Rowley < [email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > -- > Andrew Rowley > Black Hill Software > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
