David Boyes wrote:
Also, are there commands that will show me everything that's installed
on my system? VMSES/E appears to have all the answers but not sure
where in the 800+ page manual I need to reference. If this were z/OS, I
could get the answers easily from SMP/e.
The section in the VM Service manual on the software catalog has
examples. It'd be really neat if someday IBM ran a course or conference
session on how to package user tools for SES - I think more of us would
actually do it if we knew how.
You can ask IBM (nicely, of course!) for a copy of "Standard Packaging
Rules for-Based Products" (SC23-3822, the version I have here is -01).
It shows how to package a VM application so that it can be installed and
maintained via normal VM/SES-E procedures and tools. While it's not hard
to do, it does take time and a bit of effort on a vendor's part. I
suspect that the major VM vendors in the marketplace simply think that
it's too much work on their part with little if any payback.
I agree it would be nice to have 3rd party software packages included in
the VMSES-E software inventory, and to be installable via one standard tool.
Responses from the community thus far have been a huge help and greatly
appreciated.
That's normal SOP for VM. We had to survive IBM and our management
telling us VM was dead repeatedly, so we learned to stick together. 8-)
Yeah, we've even been know to buy a newbie a beer or two at SCIDS....
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DJ
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