On 11 Sep 2006 21:12:29 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (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
Even if we limit ourselves to sysprogs, I'm not sure
if there's *anything* that *everyone* wants.
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?
For some products, this can make sense. I don't
think that CA-1 is one of them.
I've seen some vendor(s) effectively do both: They
give the user replacement loadlibs *and* replacement SMP
datasets. If an emergency comes up between distro cycles,
they can send a PTF, but otherwise the user never has to
use SMP. IMO, this should be reserved for fully
self-contained products that are not expected to be in
LNKLST, LPA, etc.
I prefer to apply the maintenance, myself. In some
cases, it can be good to have the fine control of APPLYing
some fixes and not others. But, I can understand that some
people would enjoy the ease of "copy these libraries and
you're done".
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