On Tue, 23 Jul 2013 17:58:16 -0600, Roger Bolan wrote:

>Application programmers should be able to use SMP/E.  They just should
>never be updating the system zones and libraries.  As an application
>developer I have for years maintained my own "sandbox" CSI with my own
>global, target and dlib zones.   I can do whatever I want in there with my
>own zones and my own libraries without affecting the system or anybody else
>on it.  I can test the installation of products, ++APARS, and PTFs and
>recreate the scenarios of customers who get themselves into trouble.  It
>has been invaluable.
>
A voice of reason.  And it was safe, or at least believed to be safe, until
IO11698/IO12263.

-- gil

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