I'm not CA-1 customer.
Personally I would choose SMP/E, however it could depend on how the
alternative way is designed.
From the other hand I understand people who don't want SMP/E. It is too
complex, and its complexity could give more troubles than profits. It is
possible to do it simpler.
It's funny when someone ask about SRELs, the names 30+ years old -
obviously missed conception. It is horrible how many commands,
structures, objects are inside of SMP/E. It's both funny and horrible
when I get CBPDO order: 40 tapes, only 5 of them contains product code,
7 are empty (!) and 28 contains single "text file" - in fact some kind
of installation description (and PTFs to be honest).
From the other hand <g> SMP/E already exist, while non-SMP/E method
would be either very limited or would have to be created.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
Russell Witt wrote:
I had a request from a client today, asking when CA-1 would stop being
delivered in SMP/e format and would be a simple library-download. From
my
other talks with clients, I thought everyone wanted products delivered
in
SMP/e format. And this was the first time I had seen a request to go
backwards to simply giving people a loadlib that they could refresh on a
monthly/quarterly basis as required. This client pointed to a number of
other products that do not use SMP/e and he felt SMP/e way to cumbersome
to
deal with (obviously, he was in charge of OEM products and not
maintenance
to the operating system itself). Still, I have to ask, would clients
prefer
to have an optional non-SMP/e installation procedure even when it means
having to download a fresh copy of the product in order to apply
maintenance?
I am not saying I can change the packaging of CA-1 by myself, but if
many
clients are interested it is something I can push for. I have just never
seen a request like this before.
Russell Witt
CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager
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