But, doesn't that take a long time and burn many cycles to get it
done? I'm only asking to verify what I have been told about
z/OSMF in the past few weeks.
Steve Thompson
On 9/5/2023 7:23 PM, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 6/09/2023 7:34 am, Phil Smith III wrote:
To recap, the goal here is just to make our SMP/E installation
as easy as possible for the increasing number of customers for
whom it seems to be a mystery. Yes, that's worrisome; no, I
can't fix it. What I can do is try to keep them from blowing
their fingers off as much as possible by making it as easy as
possible.
IBM's answer to this would be to recommend installing using a
portable software instance through z/OSMF. That will deliver
the whole SMP/E environment pre-built, and the customer doesn't
need to do any SMP/E for installation. They can still install
maintenance using SMP/E, and you can be reasonably confident
that the SMP/E environment is configured correctly so they can
install maintenance.
There are some downsides (new stuff to learn etc.) but given
your goal and the fact that IBM is pushing people to z/OSMF
installation anyway, it's worth considering.
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