On Jan 13, 2006, at 9:19 AM, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:40:10 -0500, Knutson, Sam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My only minor concern is that I now need to monitor the use of DFSORT
and we may eventually have to customize ICEMAC further. So far we
are
running with the defaults.
After some problems, we did have to customize ICEMAC per some
suggestions in II14047. Another usermod... for a product we
aren't licenced to run. :-) No biggie...
Mark
Mark,
I guess I beg to differ. I expressed the same concern off list to
another member.
When I was doing system installs we had (IIRC) around 90 usermods,
these were mostly for compiler (cobol and Le and other languages) as
well as ISPF and JES2 and system type mods.
Each system replacement came along we had to research each time all
90 usermods. This essentially was 180 jobs (receive & apply) for each
one.
Adding 2 more jobs is not only time consumming it is not conducive to
getting two installs in one year done in any timely fashion.
Its been a while since I have done DFSORT, but IIRC (I could be
wrong on this) there are at least 2 usermods for the one product.
Don't get me wrong I do prefer DFSORT over SYNCSORT for various reasons.
While you may say no biggie I would like to disagree with you. All
the time I have spent researching/receiving/applying has been an
exercise in frustration. I had my regular duties to perform as well
as the researching/etc/etc . I was having to put in 90 hour weeks
before the tapes arrived adding the installs put me at 110 hour
weeks. I didn't have a life with the added usermods I had no life.
Ed
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