I can't give you answer to your question but these days many vendors now provide the facility to delivery software via electronic delivery from an FTP site or on a CD/DVD. Where available it's a far quicker and more convenient (IMHO) of software delivery.
Stephen Mednick Computer Supervisory Services Sydney, Australia Asia/Pacific representatives for Innovation Data Processing, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Squillace Sent: Tuesday, 6 July 2010 7:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Backup/Restore products at z/OS sites I'm looking at tape format options for software delivery and want to find out how available FDR and/or DFDSS are at z/OS sites. - What percentage of sites would you say have at least one of these two products? - If your site does not have either DFDSS or FDR, what do you use instead. Dan Squillace Sr. IT Manager, Mainframe Support SAS Institute Inc. Cary, NC USA phone: 919 531-7611 mobile: 919 606-0263 fax: 919 677-4444 email: [email protected] text pager: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
