Ok, so I will speak out to my positive experiences…. I’m personally not in favor of a GUI for the sake of a GUI without bringing advantages to the table. But I have become a ZOSMF fan more recently.
Serverpac – On the ISPF panels, old process, I could have the entire process laid down, and complete in less than a day, that is massaging the new config by merging the prior, and then doing the customizations. Did zOS 3.1 Serverpac on z/OSMF and that process even got more simple. Yea, took a bit of time to get used to the workflows, but it really was good. Still took about half a day, mostly because the jobs to load the datasets just takes a long time, but it was easy. Did I have to adapt? Sure, but I’m not that stuck in my ways to not adapt to a new process. ZCX management – provisioning, upgrading, etc – Once you put your local values in, you click go, and it’s done in like 10 minutes. There is no way I’d want to do what that workflow does manually. We are running a Rocket Terminal Emulator – Web in a 6 node cluster to get our feet wet. I am playing with Omegamon TEPS in ZCX cluster. When IBM releases a docker version of Omegamon TEMS, then we’ll move both the TEMS and TEPS off of the AIX box its running on today. Network Configuration assistant for Policy agent – very nice cannot live without. What I *wish* IBM would adopt? All of these other IBM products that make you install/maintain an entirely separate product to provide their GUI interfaces should be building ZOSMF plug-in’s. Im talking about TWS dynamic workload console, GDPS Gui interface, Omegamon TEPS, IBM Storage insights, etc Especially frustrating (at least in our shop) is when a mainframe based tool needs a Windows or Linux server instance to complete the installation. The amount of red-tape to get something provisioned is extremely heavy. This is part of the reason I personally have been getting educated in ZCX and docker containers. If I can put up a container on my machine, and maintain it as part of our infrastructure, its way less headaches. Anyway my opinion, FWIW. Dave Jousma Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of william janulin <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 10:52 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: zOSMF - Installing z/OS 3.1 Observations I thought this product was ti simplify the process. . . . . make the job easier????? Sorry, Bill J. On Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 09: 16: 10 AM EDT, Shaffer, Terri <0000017d5f778222-dmarc-request@ listserv. ua. edu> wrote: No sure what I did is I thought this product was ti simplify the process.....make the job easier????? Sorry, Bill J. On Wednesday, May 15, 2024 at 09:16:10 AM EDT, Shaffer, Terri <[email protected]> wrote: No sure what I did is a sledgehammer approach as I had to edit the SERVERPAC JCL on many occasions also, because the defined jobs didnt work in my configuration and setup. This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
