Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
I agree with Arthur here. It souinds like your procedure just uses SMP
as a driver for IEBCOPY. Yes, that's something SMP does, so I guess it's
not a "misuse", but but it completely eliminates SMP's ability to
coordinate maintenance (which is its only value, IM not so HO). If you
are going to use that technique, why bother with SMP at all? If your
product does not need the coordination of fixes, you don't need SMP.
To someone trying to learn SMP, this technique is very misleading.
To those already familiar with SMP this could look like a marketting
gimick, just allowing you to say "We use SMP".
There have been posts in this thread and previously on IBM-Main from
contributors who asserted that non-SMP/E installs are prohibited in
their shops. These kind of blanket restrictions lead to SMP/E solutions
that meet the "letter" rather than the "spirit" of the "law".
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90045
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