Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >I used to package a software product I maintained. It was a simple >template. We built the SMPE zones, defined the FMID and APPLY / ACCEPT. >Load modules and macros were in PDS form. It wasn't "difficult".
Glad you found it thus. We found it tedious, with many un- or poorly documented wrinkles, and the error messages are horrendous. While we've done it for over a decade, and customers with SMP/E experience have no problem with it, customers with less experience consistently need help navigating an install. I think one of the worst aspects is the inconsistent support for symbols, so sometimes you can just carefully document "Set this symbol to the HLQ of." and other times it's "Find all the occurrences of XYZZY and change it to." Just feels half-baked, like they got it working and never went back and finished it. But it does work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
