On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:15:41 -0400, David Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks for your comments, Mark. You raise some good points, requiring >me to review choices originally made 15+ years ago. > You're welcome. >Almost all my maintenance is in the form of ++ZAPs. <snip> >So for each load module, I have to gather my zaps together into a >single ++APAR. > <snip> Now I see your problem. I didn't remember that. I've run into this with other vendors and have to end up doing multiply apply runs. (IIRC, apply check doesn't complain about this either!) >My customers are happy with it. I've installed / maintained your product at several past clients. I didn't have any issues with your method. I can read and follow instructions. :-) > >So exactly, what is it I'm supposed to be caring about here? Perhaps only that you really aren't taking advantage of everything SMP/E can do for you (and you customers). I'm still not clear on the advatage SMP/E gives to you or your customers over a full IEBCOPY type replacement at each cumlative maintenance level. The only thing I can see for sure is that it would make auditors happy and shops that require SMP/E installed products. >>I guess for a small product your method works, but I don't see where >>it is any easier. I would hate to do all that extra restore / >>reject work for nothing. > >It's not really "all that" much work, Mark. The canned JCL automates >it and is very reliable. > I wasn't referring to human work, I was referring to computer work that SMP/E has to do. For your very small product it may be fine, but imagine trying to use your method for a large or very large product. SMP/E tends to be a bit of a CPU hog (although much improved in recent years). Cheers, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
