Chris, I have made issues to management about the installability and maintainability of vendor products. I have also told management that they should turn down a product because of these issues. More than a few times management followed my recommendations. I do not want to get into a vendor X or vendor Y specifics (unless you want me to).
I also have installed a fair number of vendor products (probably over 200) . As you would expect some lead you by the nose in every step while some take a laid back. Yes there are vendors that are good and likewise poor (or terrible) (installability). Cookbook approaches can be best used when it is a simple install (ie link edit one or two modules) when it gets to many more modules it can get complicated or reasonably straight forward. I changed the parm of the linkage editor (added size=(999K,400K) IIRC) and the vendor refused to talk to me unless I deinstalled it and used the parms EXACTLY what was in the canned JCL. Like I said some vendors don't have a clue. The best suggestion I can say is that you must use the "install" experience when it comes time to decide if you want to buy product X. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
