So far, I've been able to use one mod-9 for SMPNTS and one mod-9 for SMPWKDIR, both HFS. But it does take 3 mod-3's to hold all the various roots for z/OS.
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Kurt Quackenbush > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 3:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SMP/E packaging of maintence / products (was: FMID > descriptions) > > McKown, John wrote: > > Could I ask a question which I know you likely cannot answer. But, if > > possible, could you explain why the SMP/E Internet download stuff in > > SMP/E uses UNIX files to store the data rather than z/OS "legacy" > > type datasets (perhaps compressed with TERSE or XMIT'ed)? > > As a matter of fact I can answer that question. Mostly because the > download FTP servers and their file systems are not necessarily z/OS, > and non-z/OS systems do not typically play well with z/OS data sets. > We > wanted to keep the package and file structure Internet-friendly > (platform agnostic?) so it wouldn't matter much what kind of system was > used to serve, or download. Remember, for those that cannot or choose > not to download directly to z/OS, we expect the package to be > downloaded > to a workstation. In addition, we wanted to use a supported and > "standard" archive/compression utility. The UNIX pax command was our > choice. Therefore, UNIX files seemed like a good choice all around. > > I'm sure we could have made other choices, and I'm sure some folks on > this list will be more than happy to point them out to me. Be that as > it may, the format we landed on was and is UNIX files. It is > unfortunate you have to jump through hoops to get a set of volumes to > use for the download. Can you work with your storage admins to avoid > this in the future? > > Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
