I, personally, as a z/OS system programmer tend to like SMP/E. IBM has made installation simple via ShopzSeries. I put in my order. I eventually get an email saying it is ready. I log on to get the download information that I need and run a single SMP/E job which downloads and sets it up (RECEIVE), ready to customize and install. CA is similar, but we haven't gone to using MSM yet (don't know why).
But the other 2 sysprogs here tend to prefer to get XMIT type files, perhaps packaged in a "zip" file. One simply prefers XMIT format, but will work with the CA stuff, which is downloaded to a UNIX subdirectory when he is forced to (compressed PAX format). The second really despises anything other than "simple XMIT". But, then, he really dislikes z/OS UNIX. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Duffy Nightingale <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I see another developer on here. And we send our product out using TSO > XMIT. Which gives rise to a question. I saw some techie state that he > would not install a product unless he could use SMP/E. Is this something > us developers should explore or is it a big headache that is not worth it? > > Thanks, > > Duffy Nightingale > Sound Software Printing, Inc. > www.soundsoftware.us > [email protected] > Phone: 360.385.3456 > Fax: 973.201.8921 > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
