On Jun 14, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
In my experience, fewer new sysprogs know about IEBUPDTE because they
have no need to run it on their own. Serverpac creates jobs that
many newer
people just submit and if they get the desired return code have no
idea what
they ran because they never scroll through the job. So even if
Serverpac or
some other installation step runs IEBUPDTE, they just submit it and
if it works
never know what they did. The guiding hand should be there, at
least enough
to complete the task.
Those who already know how to do something can skip over material
they do
not need. Those who do not know how to do something get annoyed when
they have to go track down other manuals to complete what should be a
simple task. Anything to document what you need while you are doing
it is
going to help the newer people.
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Yes and no...I partially agree with you. If a sysprog has almost no
SMPe experience then I guess I agree. But almost all of the JES2
modules are IEBUPDTE (except the OCO ones) and anyone looking at the
output from an apply will be seeing IEBUPDTE statement(s). If I were
to ask an experienced SYSPROG about IEBUPDTE and got a blank look or
never heard of it, I would think twice about hiring the person. If
you took it down to the servpac they use it a bit but it maybe
glossed over someplace along the lines. I am mixed (as I have said in
the pass about servpacs) about servpacs on one hand they do the job
but at the other its a dumbing down of the sysprog, IMO. I expect to
hear a lot of noise because I am criticizing IBM again but what else
is new.
Ed
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