On Feb 12, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/11/2006
at 01:05 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
In the past some IBM products seriously lagged behind MVS. I don't
know these days. On the other extreme I have seen vendors depend on
JES2 APARS (new ones) . They forced the JES2 maintenance issue at one
place. Luckily the JES2 people put out reasonably reliable fixes.
I take it that you don't consider the packaging to be part of the fix
:-(
I don't recall having any packaging issues with JES2. AFAICR the
pre's and sup's were were right on. I do remember having to pull JES2
APARS via dialup (at boulder IRC). Once or twice it got convoluted
but (my memory is iffy here) we had just brought up an IPO and the
maintenance was below par. There was a long apar chain that just
would not quit (sort of like the old VSAM ptf tapes). AFAIK IBM went
cumulative with their PTF's about then.
This was 15+ years ago and IBM has really cleaned up their act as far
as JES2 . I think it took some pounding of heads at IBM to get it all
corrected. But they did. At least IBM *DOES* follow the SMPe
packaging rules unlike CA.
I guess I was just lucky when it came to JES2 (along with some help
from various other JES2 shops that really did believe in the bleeding
edge).
Don't get me started on the CBPDO process and smp/e.
Ed
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