On Feb 27, 2010, at 23:56, John P. Hartmann wrote:

> May I politely suggest that you take the question of how to avoid using CMS
> Pipelines to another list?
>
One of us misunderstands -- I believe there's a version of CMS
Pipelines which is included in the base CMS product, and supported
in the base IBM service contract (am I wrong?).  I expect no one
to have any objection to that.  The distribution available from
Marist is another matter -- while the support is timely and the
response is excellent, some corporate officers and IT managers
may object to its informality.  Is the charter of this list
only the version available from Marist, not the one supplied
by IBM?


> On 27 February 2010 17:14, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 27, 2010, at 09:05, Richard Troth wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> So ... VMFPLC is great, and TAR is interoperable with non-CMS.  Both
>>> are envelope thingies.  Both can be neatly wrapped into plumbing.
>>>
>> And, because we must take into account customers who may balk at
>> installing anything for which they can't purchase a service
>> contract, and at purchasing a service contract they don't already
>> have, which of these are incorporated in the base VM?
>>
>> (Our own systems programmer refuses to install/support the
>> Pipelines RTL; customers may feel likewise.)

I've coded a REXX which uses the DIGEST stage available only
in the Library Distribution.  I'll try to make checksums
available to customers to verify with whatever techniques
are acceptable.

Thanks,
gil

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