Kurt, I also find this a pain in the a__. Is it still IBM's purpose to 'Make this more difficult so we will understand it' You took something that worked real well and messed it up.
How about two procedures, one for the z/OS-z/VM and one for HFS/OMVS/UNIX fixes??? --- On Fri, 5/29/09, Kurt Quackenbush <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Kurt Quackenbush <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: SMP/E packaging of maintence / products (was: FMID descriptions) > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 6:22 PM > 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
