edgould1...@comcast.net (Ed Gould) wrote: <snip>
Don't have internet connectivity to the Internet. The DVD option tends to tie up a person for long periods of time. They have work to do that is productive.
Ed, I have to ask: You are *directly* involved in software installation these days and you have used DVDs from IBM for z/OS platform product or ServerPac installation?
Tape is so much simpler. Only thing needed is to change 1 JCL statement and submit. Mount the tape and walk away little sysprog intervention needed. Let the system grind away with the receive .
Tape sounds simple; I sort of miss the days when it actually was. But media compatbility has fragmented in the tape market, we are not going to support them all, and a lot of customers are going entirely tapeless. What started this discussion within IBM in the first place is that a small and dropping percentage of our customers are ordering products and service on tape. The vast majority do not, it would seem, deem tape the best option any more for one reason or another.
Also...receive from tape? I'd hope fewer people are using RECEIVE processing for product installation every day, and for service it's hard to beat a nightly production job that runs RECEIVE ORDER for simplicity, keeping service on hand and HOLDDATA both dead current. "Set and forget."
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