On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 07:45:13 +1000, Stephen Mednick wrote: >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. > And IBM's choice for FTP delivery is RECEIVE FROMNETWORK format. And IBM's choice for CD/DVD format is an image of the FTP site.
Of course, nowadays customers may need to scramble to get their security commissaires to approve use of the notoriously hazardous SMP/E. By what criterion is CD/DVD "electronic" as compared to tape. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
