We are a Partnerworld customer (ADCD), so our software is always downed to Linux and installed, easy and simple
Regards, Scott On Tuesday, May 12, 2015, Werner Kuehnel <werner.kueh...@mannheimer.de> wrote: > We are one of the companies running entirely tapeless. We get all software > via download. So I have no choice. > And to go one step further, there is a growing number of companies, where > the USB ports and DVD devices are disabled for security reasons (as with > us). > What I'd like to see is an extended period for download of a server pac or > product pac. Why not give a time span of 8-10 weeks? I'm always afraid to > miss the time, especially if I order before a vacation. > > Werner Kuehnel > > > > > > Von: John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.com <javascript:;>> > An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <javascript:;>, > Datum: 12.05.2015 13:39 > Betreff: Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape? > Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > <javascript:;>> > > > > edgould1...@comcast.net <javascript:;> (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." > > -- > John Eells > z/OS Technical Marketing > IBM Poughkeepsie > ee...@us.ibm.com <javascript:;> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu <javascript:;> with the message: > INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu <javascript:;> 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
