Lizette Koehler wrote: >I have several downloads I use from the CBT Tape. But I do not incorporate >them into a production - if this dies the system dies - process. If the tool >I have from the CBT TAPE dies, it does not impact anything but my statistics >or analysis functions. Then I try to go and find another process.
Indeed. Everything from CBT Tape is *optional*. If I can't assemble it or it does not work, I just drop it. No sweat. Some free IBM goodies are also available for using (with the usual disclaimer and warning about no support). >I am always looking for products supported by companies that have a good track >record so I can replace anything I use from the CBT TAPE; however, that usage >is isolated to me and no one else. Or some of the CBT Tape freebies were incorporate into z/OS at a later stage. Think for example those freebies which allows you to dynamically modify a Linklist. >One caveat. No business is protected from failure. So even when buying tools >from various vendors, there is no guarantee that the vendor will be around >tomorrow. Or that support will be able to fix the problem if they cannot >replicate it in-house. For us, we need guarantee the vendor with a good track record or its reseller has an office + staff in our country. One vendor closed their office because of their own reasons and appointed a reseller. We dropped them and got another vendor because the appointed reseller was not reliable/available. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
