Sam, Thanks. Like you, I had to bumble my way through learning SMP/e. I had a few fellow sys progs to lean on, but most of my knowledge was self taught with lots of trial and error. I will definitely give this a read.
Something that I have not seen documented is how to create my own SMP/e install for my own software. Is that only provided to ISV's? On Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 1:11 PM Sam Golob <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I was just reviewing an article I wrote in 1988 (a long time ago) > that encapsulates and summarizes my original efforts to learn SMP/E. > > Many of us systems programmers don't have a chance to do system > maintenance, leaving it to "the designated person (or people)". And > also, when breaking in a new person, that person is often given the job > of doing the SMP/E system maintenance. In my experience, the first > exposure to SMP/E is a daunting task. And it is even somewhat > forbidding (to learn SMP/E) for very experienced systems programmers > also, who (somehow) never ever got exposed to it, in their own LONG > experience. > > My personal feeling (in 1988, after five years as a sysprog) was > that, with the PROPER TEACHING, I could have learned, in 3 weeks, what > took me 4 years to learn. > > I didn't want that to happen to anybody else. > > So I wrote an article. Very carefully. > > I just read it over, today. That's why I'm writing this piece. > > IF ANYBODY FEELS THE NEED TO LEARN SMP/E, PLEASE GO TO FILE 014 OF > THE CBT TAPE (www.cbttape.org), and READ THE MEMBER, SMPARTCL. > > Part of the problem in learning SMP/E, is that IBM does not tell > you about its history, and where it came from. In order to really > understand SMP/E, you first must have a grasp of doing a SYSGEN, to > create a new MVS system. We don't do SYSGENs anymore, so this makes it > hard to understand the foundation and structure and purpose and method > of operation, of SMP/E. > > Nevertheless, in that article, I tried to recreate the history, the > best I could. > > BOTTOM LINE. If you want to train someone, or yourself, to do > SMP/E, please first read this article - CBT File 014 - member SMPARTCL. > It is almost guaranteed to make the process simpler. > > Hope this helps......... > > All the best of everything to all of you. > > Sincerely, Sam > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
