On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 09:56:14 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: > >>o If I RECEIVE a SYSMOD containing a GIMZIPped UNIX directory, >> what goes in the GLOBAL zone? > >Nothing. Only components identified as type SMPPTFIN, SMPHOLD >or SMPRELF are processed by SMP/E. > Given my (unfounded?) assumption that GIMZIP was devised to support SMP/E installation and service, it's puzzling that GIMZIP supports objects SMP/E doesn't process. Are they intended for use in a post-APPLY script? That would seem to be an abdication of control by SMP/E, and provides no support for RESTORE.
>A customer who is using RECEIVE FROMNETWORK wouldn't likely care >what the contents of the network package looks like. Rather, they >would care whether it works correctly. > We have had a customer complain that he would prefer to receive RELFILEs unloaded by TSO TRANSMIT rather than by GIMZIP, regardless that the latter works correctly and appears to be the technique chosen and supported by IBM. The customer was able to cite in defense of his position an IBM product delivered in TSO TRANSMIT unloaded RELFILEs. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
