Terri Shaffer wrote, in part: ><snip>This is the problem with z/OSMF and especially the new software >instance install BS, its trying to make it idiot proof, but everyones >SMS, volumes, catalogs, etc are all different and it doesn't work, or >not easily.
This is the problem Windows had to overcome. Remember when Windows applications were just DOS applications with a Windows GUI overlay? They were great until you did the wrong thing and fell off the edge into line-mode land. That’s where z/OSMF and ZOWE really are today. One of the things Windows was able to do was mandate some file structure, e.g., C:\Windows and (later) C:\Program Files (plus the Registry), that gave some of this required structure. (And yes, you COULD install it somewhere other than C:, but good luck with that—every case I’ve ever seen had weird problems with installing other software that expected C:.) There WAS nobody with 50 years of running Windows, terabytes of data, thousands of extant jobs, etc. – plus each new version of Windows was a fresh install, so it was your problem to get your data over to the new machine anyway. This is where I lose interest in z/OSMF and ZOWE: they’re great until you fall off the cliff, either through something you did or because your stuff wasn’t where/how it expected it to be. I don’t know that this is necessarily an intractable problem, but it’s certainly one that needs to be recognized and addressed. By IBM. And while it may be solvable, it would take a lot of research and investment, which I doubt can be justified at this point in the life of the product and IBM’s direction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
