Small product with just a few libraries and fairly stand-alone is ok via XMIT. Especially if it is mostly maintained by replacement. Anything more complex is helped by SMP/E, but even with IBM (and CA) when done with SMP/E, there is still usually half or more of the install doing configurations and tailoring.
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Duffy Nightingale > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 1:04 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: BLKSIZE=3120 > > Interesting. Thanks much! > > Duffy Nightingale > Sound Software Printing, Inc. > www.soundsoftware.us > du...@soundsoftware.us > Phone: 360.385.3456 > Fax: 973.201.8921 > > The information in this e-mail, and any attachment therein > is confidential and for use by the addressee only. If you are > not the intended recipient, please return the e-mail to the > sender and delete it from your computer. Although Sound > Software Printing, Inc. attempts to sweep e-mail and > attachments for viruses, it does not guarantee that either > are virus-free and accepts no liability for any damage > sustained as a result of viruses. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 1:01 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: BLKSIZE=3120 > > I, personally, as a z/OS system programmer tend to like SMP/E. IBM has > made installation simple via ShopzSeries. I put in my order. I eventually get > an > email saying it is ready. I log on to get the download information that I need > and run a single SMP/E job which downloads and sets it up (RECEIVE), ready > to customize and install. CA is similar, but we haven't gone to using MSM yet > (don't know why). > > But the other 2 sysprogs here tend to prefer to get XMIT type files, perhaps > packaged in a "zip" file. One simply prefers XMIT format, but will work with > the CA stuff, which is downloaded to a UNIX subdirectory when he is forced to > (compressed PAX format). The second really despises anything other than > "simple XMIT". But, then, he really dislikes z/OS UNIX. > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Duffy Nightingale > <du...@soundsoftware.us>wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I see another developer on here. And we send our product out using > > TSO XMIT. Which gives rise to a question. I saw some techie state > > that he would not install a product unless he could use SMP/E. Is > > this something us developers should explore or is it a big headache that is > not worth it? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Duffy Nightingale > > Sound Software Printing, Inc. > > www.soundsoftware.us > > du...@soundsoftware.us > > Phone: 360.385.3456 > > Fax: 973.201.8921 > > > > -- > This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual > emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
