SNIPPETS -I- am not telling you anything of the sort. I am telling you that customers who write big checks for enterprise software products have made enough fuss about this issue that pretty much all of the vendors provide gooberware to assist with installation and configuration of their software. You can choose to believe me or not, I won't lose any sleep either way.
END of SNIPPETS When I saw the divergence of autoinstallers and SMP/e in a product, I went the SMP/e way for the reason that it kept my methods in line for products and system stuff. I've been exposed to autoinstallers in both VM and MVS worlds and never had a particular fondness for them. Things get stuck into mysterious places and customization routines which ask for inputs seem to have their share of troubles. Now thinking back to the days of SMP IV and superzap...I like the newer SMP/e. My concession to the 'GUI' SMP/e panels is that I like to create the commands and store off the resulting jobstreams both for example and for documentation. I am NOT looking for Big Blue or any other vendor to come out with the patch-mania that drives certain desktop systems. Daniel McLaughlin ZOS Systems Programmer Crawford & Company PH: 770 621 3256 * Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more." ? Louis L'Amour ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
