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Well, that was a bad day.
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That's a masterpiece of understatement! :-)
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But this does not justify the general statement that this never has
happnened, nor ever will, with RMF.
I bet there will at least be one site that has had a similar experience
with RMF?
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I don't believe I ever made the statement that RMF was perfect. I was,
however, assured by RMF Lvl-2 support, that it uses designed interfaces
to gather its information. Hooks into existing code using the
instruction-replacement technique are strictly verboten. It was that
type of hook that caused my problem with CMF. I was also assured that
TMF had never led to a system outage; only measurement outages or
inconsistencies.
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We had the same feeling with one product from a third party vendor, that
we used in stead of the IBM product. The third party product had several
nasty problems, but when I suggestes to convert to the IBM product, my
colleague who does most of the SMP work, pointed out that he regularly
saw PTFs on the IBM product for similarly nasty problems.
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Nobody has a monopoly on problems; even the most careful designs can
have some pretty nasty failures when circumstances happen that were not
considered by the designers.
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No product is bugfree, even IEFBR14 has been enhanced in the past, so
stating that one is better than the other should be based on decent
investigations.
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I submit that "enhancements" are not necessarily "solutions". Even
programs with no problems can be "enhanced".
Rick
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