>When I worked at Chase bank, We had 117 LPARS and maintenance/clone was a 30 >minute task. So adding z/OSMF was never even brought up as a consideration. > >So while I understand the direction IBM is headed, its adding LOTS of layers >to something that sound not be hard. Running thru screens vs submitting a >canned job, is hours vs minutes.
I completely agree with Terri, and I haven't even tried to use zOSMF (it is still not up here). I also ordered 2.5 before serverpac was dead (and then got delayed for a year by an ISV who could not deal with 2.5, so we had to wait). Luckily I won't ever have to use zOSMF for installing because I'll be retired before 3.2 comes out (which would be the one we'd go to). If I had to, I would resort to CBPDO. After all, all I really need is the allocation jobs for dddefs and data sets (that I massage anyway each release) and then apply/accept of the function(s) and then apply/accept of all ptfs. For extra products I have always resorted to CBPDO. As for the direction IBM is going into (dumbing down z/OS sysprogs) - who is going to find the problems when the next gen sysprogs don't have a clue what zOSMF does and what services it uses? And don't tell me IBM support will do it - they'll be dumbed-down next-gen, too, for the most part. Regards, Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
