On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 09:01 -0500, Arthur Gutowski wrote: > <rant> Since SMP/E is required to do any z/OS installation and maintenance, > and ServerPac Dialog is all but required, and CBPDO is relatively integrated > into > SMP/E... Is there any hope of IBM integrating the ServerPac application into > SMP/E? Is there any hope that ISV's will eventually figure out how to write > their installation processes around ServerPac and not try to re-invent the > wheel, failing miserably at that? Since Candle is now IBM, those products > are > now ServerPac-capable, and I'm hoping there is little to no need of CICAT > down the road. But I don't think it takes an outright acquisition to > converge > tools - aren't many of these ISV's an IBM Development Partner? </rant>
Allow me to dissent. All vendor install packaging (especially the "helpful" installers) are misguided and below par. Most are significantly worse than that. Serverpac is the best of a bad lot - take that as faint praise or a backhanded compliment - whatever. It still has it own warts. I really *DON'T* need every fool ISV shipping me a full set of SMP zones I have to restore. I am prepared to tolerate it for the BCP. Period. For everything else, gimme the relfiles, package it properly, and let me design my own environment. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
