On 05/29/2015 10:37 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > Well, it is old, but it is free. > http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/ > Click on Install MVS 3.8. > It includes instructions for loading MVS 3.7 on 2 3330 packs. > You then update SMPE and install MVS 3.8. > You can also then install the IBM PTFs and User PTFs to get to MVS > 3.8J with Turnkey enhancements. > LOTS of SMPE practice. > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Rajesh Kumar <herowith.z...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Team, >> >> As i'm new and started to learning SMP/E tool, i would like to practice it >> on my test system. >> >> Could someone please suggest me some best freeware to install(for >> training purpose). >> Please share the link and freeware product which is best for my os 1.11. >> >> Regards, >> Rajesh >>
I'm sure you mean SMP4 not SMP/E with respect to MVS 3.8 and Hercules. SMP/E wasn't introduced until MVS/XA, which is where I started doing MVS maintenance. Many add-on products for MVS at that time still had JCL examples for install/maintenance using both SMP4 and SMP/E, and occasionally even MVS/XA related APARs would slip up and give "action" statements for SMP4 which had to be translated to SMP/E counterparts. My impression from those examples was that SMP4 was considerably more primitive than SMP/E, that some important functions in SMP/E were not in SMP4, and there were distinct differences in required statement sequences and syntax. Playing with SMP4 would show you the IBM concept of SYSMOD and TLIB/DLIB-based maintenance but would not be a good substitute for actual SMP/E training. For example, the VSAM-based databases used by SMP/E to track the status of product components were introduced in SMP/E, so one would expect radical differences from the SMP4 rules for creating a product database and the techniques available for manipulating it. -- Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
