Mea culpa for overlooking the distinction between 'product' (CBPDO) and
service orders. While service can be tailored to your install base, there's
no way for the order mechanism to guess what use you intend to make of a
product. I went through this a while back with XML, which was not only huge
in itself but shipped with three different levels because that's the nature
of the XML beast. I think it's been slimmed down since then, but I ended up
with an XML HFS that approached the size of the entire USS 'root'.
So my wish would be to provide a more granular product ordering menu, where
one could specify by FMID--or subset of interdependent FMIDs--to avoid a
deluge of unwanted stuff. If I don't intend to install a component, no one
on either side of the process benefits by having it delivered to me it
willy-nilly . Restaurateurs understand this. There are lots of
all-you-can-eat places, but very few eat-it-or-else joints.
.
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On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 09:33:12 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote:
>by Kurt Quackenbush. If you tell IBM what you already have, you'll get
just
>what you need.
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Of course, this applies to PTFs more than to FUNCTIONs.
>Either 'inventory' mechanism for ordering maintenance works very well. I'm
>not sure that selective receive is worth a whole lot of limited
development
>dollars. Even with today's weakling buck. ;-(
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Understood. Perhaps the OP will explain how he was burdened with
a 7GB FMID (not even a PTF) that he doesn't want to install.
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