Re: SMP sloppiness

[Steve Arnett]

I can attest to TSO having SMP/E problems.  My first experience with 
SMP/E was installing TSO.  The cover letter for TSO/E 2.1 clearly stated 
"If you are installing this product on your currently running system be 
sure to specify COMPRESS(ALL)."  Being brand new to the MVS world, I 
took it at face value.  When the compresses finished, SMP/E died with an 
S806 of some kind, JES2 then abended with an S0C4 looking for the code 
to do the NOTIFY and I had a dead system on my hands.  Fortunately, it 
was a brand new XA express system install with about a weeks worth of 
work on it...pre-production.  I actually had to read the cover letter to 
the rep at the support center several times before he believed my 
statement that it did NOT say "...be sure NOT to specify..."...When this 
fresh newbie asked the fellow what we could do to recover the sysres 
volume he asked me if I had a backup.  I was EXTREMELY disappointed....

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