On Jun 14, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
As I heard it, Corporate Executives, not system programmers, told
IBM they
needed the software installation simplified. ServerPac is the
answer. It is
dumbing down the field. You did mention looking at the apply, well
here I am
again stating if the newer people are not looking at the JCL, they are
submitting they are certainly not looking at the output. Until it
fails. As long as
it works, submit and max return code 0 are all they believe they
need to
know. Sadly, I know a few people with years of experience who can
not do
much more than this. I have my own issues with Serverpac and post
installation dialogs.
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I had herd that as well. Of course the first day of education for
SERV PAC the instructor said something to the effect that "somebody"
wanted the servpac done so any application type could do it.
I was flabbergasted when I heard that. I laughed out loud. I did get
a few looks as apparently there were some of those "types" in the
class. It took maybe an hour after the class started to figure out
who they were. They were totally lost by noon of the first day
except for one and he was dazed and confused.
Ed
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