On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 04:35:15 -0600, Edward Gould wrote: >> >> Not SMPE installable, however the packaging is brilliant! >> >> 1) download install file >> 2) run utility to "explode" install file. >> >> Done. Both USS and z/OS components come out of the same utility. > This strikes me as preferable to an SMP/E installation with a required post-install procedure, with the hazards you mention below.
>That will never be allowed here and I agree. In the past I have seen such >thing in other products and it is easily forgotten and I can just see it >happening here as there is reasonably high turnover here and after two >turnover the staff no longer remembers it. Oh well there goes some money for >the dovetail people. > I believe that even some IBM products nowadays are SMP/E-installable, but with required post-installation procedures. Is this a symptom of inadequacy of SMP/E? And I wonder why updates to the timezone database (Olson) used by Java require an idiosyncratic administrative procecure rather than appearing as PTFs in routine maintenance stream? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
