TASID just uses the XMIT format datasets and then you run with the resultant datasets - there is no SMP/E involved.
I think what the original poster was on about was that the XMIT format datasets are received and then SMP/E JCL is run using the dataset contents. This is what we do : Each FMID "package" is supplied (in TSO XMIT form) as a PDS with members called "SMPMCS" and "Fn" where Fn is the relfile number. These members are themselves unloaded datasets in TSO XMIT format - you just run some sample JCL to unXMIT them into normal datasets amd then run the SMP/E RECEIVE using these DASD datasets as SMPPTFIN input instead of the traditional cart/tape input. Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel A. McLaughlin Sent: 13 September 2006 07:16 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Non-SMP/e packaging I once installed a product called TASA from INFOSECINC. The package is downloadable from the company's web site as a binary file. It then is TSO RECEIVED into a samplib. The supplied install jobs do all the SMPE stuff. <<< Snippage Even TASID from IBM is done that way. But for an overall product install sometimes SMPe makes sense, other times not so much. Some vendors use full file replacements, as I recall, and that works just as well. Daniel McLaughlin ZOS Systems Programmer Crawford & Company PH: 770 621 3256 * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
