In <4589494201288586.wa.dlikensinfosecinc....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 07/23/2013 at 06:41 AM, Donald Likens <dlik...@infosecinc.com> said:
>I have been working with SMP/E since before there was an E (SMP) >(over 40 years) and I believe shops that limit themselves to SMP/E >installed products are simply causing themselves extra work. I might agree for a single CSECT product, but certainly not for a product with dozens of components. >I am a consultant and a software developer. Recently had two >installs. One from IBM using SMP/E and another not using SMP/E. Both >products were of similar size and complexity. The installation for >the none SMP/E installation took under a day. The installation for >the SMP/E installed product took about a week and cost my client >much more money (consulting fees). The Devil is in the details. Where did the time go? Were the two cases really similar, or just the product sizes. >If a shop required an SMP/E maintained product, I guess I would >create a CSI etc. but I would download it like a serverpac. Does that mean that all of your service would be in levelsets? You might lose some potential customers if so. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN