> Yes.&whatever. As I wrote before, there's way too much "take this job and > find the 27 places that say XYZZY and change them to the right HLQ." instead > of "Run it with these variables set as follows". This makes creating and > documenting SMP/E installs a lot more work than they should need to be.
Yup, there's often lots of JCL samples to be massaged to perform an SMP/E install. Create CSIs, allocate target and dlib data sets, update DDDEF entries, ... Which is one of the reasons why z/OSMF Software Management and Portable Software Instances exist. Any provider (not just IBM) can create a Portable Software Instance containing their software product using z/OSMF and distribute it to their clients, and the clients can install the software contained in the Portable Software Instance using z/OSMF. No JCL massaging required. Kurt Quackenbush IBM | z/OS SMP/E and z/OSMF Software Management | ku...@us.ibm.com Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies PTFs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
