On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:02:23 -0500, Ed Gould
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I would suggest that you decline the request and say that since CA-1
"interacts" and is IBM module dependent it is in the best interest of
all parties to be in a deliverable state which facilitates IBM
maintenance.
SIGH/.... They don't play nicely with others. So you are right, but
there are other who do. I was not saying CA is good or bad and I was
not making my comments saying one vendor is good or bad. There are
vendors who do play by the rules some don't. Some who do not need to
know what maintenance level is. A program that opens a file processes
records probably does not need to know the PTF level of MVS. (there
are some exceptions but I won't point fingers at this time).
Programs that are dependent on mvs PTF level are IMO a must for smpe
packaging. I know of one vendor that is extremely dependent on JES2
maintenance levels. I honestly don't remember if they SMPe packaged
or not but I have read a bucket from the vendor and they talk about
IBM PTF numbers. I do remember that they expect *YOU* (or your
company) to be on almost bleeding edge JES2 maintenance.
Ed
It has been a long time since I did anything with CA-1, but I don't
remember
it ever having IFREQs on IBM maintenance, or even going into the
same zone
or belonging to Z038. Unless I am mistaken, Ed's comment doesn't
apply.
All it takes to nullify the advantages of an SMP/E installation is
*one*
request from the vendor to apply service with BYPASS(ID).
That said, my preference has generally been for an SMP/E install,
provided
that it is done correctly. This is no trivial matter, and as Mark
pointed
out. Innovation does a fine job without it. I wouldn't ask them
to divert
resources from product development to provide proper SMP/E packaging.
Tom Marchant
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