On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:54:45 -0500, Barbara Nitz <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:43:36 -0500, Paul Gilmartin ><[email protected]> wrote: >>>Statements of direction >>>IBM intends to provide the capability to deliver the z/OS Customized >>>Offerings (such as ServerPac, CBPDO, Customized Offerings Driver, >>>SystemPac®, ProductPac®) and service orders on DVD media. ... >>> >>Have they described the data format of the DVD offering? >> >>How many DVDs will be required to contain a major product? > >And how do I read those DVDs on z/OS? Or do I read them on the PC and then >run into all the space problems during upload that Paul described? (I had run >into the same back in z/OS 1.4 days, and I agree, this takes much too much >time!) Via CD is how Beta Systems delivers their products, and believe me, I >don't like it. > >Let's restate the question: >How many of you can use RECEIVE FROMNETWORK directly, without starting >other supporting programs? > We do. Probably most shops that use internet delivery do. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
