Agreed.

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> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Alan Altmark
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 10:29 AM
> To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: Who's using execute in place?
>
> On Tuesday, 02/12/2013 at 09:57 EST, David Boyes
> <dbo...@sinenomine.net>
> wrote:
> > We don't use it due to the difficulty of creating and maintaining the
> DCSS from
> > Linux over time.
> > Since neither of the major distros on Z integrated it into the system
> > management tooling, I suspect that it never got used much and no one
> would miss
> > it.
>
> IMO, as long as the user has to maintain the DCSS it will never catch
> on.
> The software vendor must decide what should/shouldn't go into the DCSS,
> not the sysprog.  When you get a service update, the DCSS needs to be
> re-built automatically if the sysprog has configured its use.  And I
> want
> to configure its use in only one place.  I don't want to have to say
> 'yes'
> in File A, and then the name in File B, and for the system to load it
> in
> File C.
>
> Alan Altmark
>
> Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant
> IBM System Lab Services and Training
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