The links appear to be working now.
I hope that only minimal reading between the lines is needed to make it
clear where we're going with product installation on the z/OS platform.
It's been quite a journey to get this far, and we've had the help of
dozens of other software vendors.
We overuse the word "transform" a lot. So I will say instead that
collectively we have an exciting opportunity to transmogrify the
installation process for products on the z/OS platform into something a
lot better. (Did I really say "exciting"? Me? Yep.)
We now have an SMP/E-agnostic product packager, installer, and
deployment manager built into z/OS V2.2's z/OSMF Software Management
functions; it's part of the operating system now. We have the ability to
export software instances and use them as input to a deployment
operation. We plan new APIs to let you create and export software
instances from a program, too. And, we plan to build infrastructure into
ServerPac's ordering and delivery systems so that ServerPac can support
products that are not packaged using SMP/E.
*Whoa*! Don't panic. This DOES NOT signal that IBM will move everything
out of SMP/E management. There are no plans to change the packaging for
products that really need SMP/E or something just like it. But, Software
Management now supports non-SMP/E-packaged products too.
If I get approved, and if the session is accepted, I'll be talking about
this more, and expanding on IBM's future directions for installation, at
SHARE in San Jose. There might be another related session, as well. Stay
tuned...
There's other cool stuff in the z/OS announcement, too. The SMF
analytics support bears directly on recent discussions here.
Go look! (Watch the wrap.)
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS216-392&appname=USN
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John Eells
IBM Poughkeepsie
ee...@us.ibm.com
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