> "take this job and find the 27 places that say XYZZY and change them to the > right HLQ."
The // SET XYZZY= statement addresses your 27 places issue. Are you asking for a symbol in the CSI itself rather than in the job? > Consider installing products on other operating systems: What other systems? > you run the installer, and either it asks where you want stuff or > it goes in the current directory (or subdirectories thereof). Maybe in [PC|MS]-DOS. In most package managers the package metadata tell the installer what goes where. That's still true for the installers in ArcaOS, openSUSE and windows; I'd be very surprised if it wasn't still true for, e.g., Debian, RedHat. Yesd, you can choose to distribute things as a tarball, but then your talking about not using the OS supported method. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Phil Smith III [li...@akphs.com] Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2023 3:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is SMP/E needed for installs? Shmuel wrote, in part: >Symbols? 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. Consider installing products on other operating systems: you run the installer, and either it asks where you want stuff or it goes in the current directory (or subdirectories thereof). With SMP/E, you have to tell it many, many times, and (in my experience, which is admittedly quite limited) in subtly different ways: some places you need one level of HLQ and others you need more. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
