I tend to take this approach as well.   And, given that DASD space is not an 
issue for me on my SYSRES(mod-54's), it is just plain convenient too.

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Staller, Allan
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 8:44 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: IBM Download Director and x64 Windows

Security/Integrity PTF's are flagged by FMID. If that is not known, it is hard 
to get/install the SEC/INT maintenance.
The amount of "additional work" (just receive, apply, accept(opt) an additional 
few PTFs) to support JAVA via SMP/E is minimal and should take no more "space" 
that non-smp methods.
For that reason I have chosen to install/maintain JAVA via SMP/E.

I agree (in general) that SMP/E is overkill since the packaging method for JAVA 
maintenance is full replacement of the HFS/ZFS file.

Just my $0.02 USD worth...
<snip>
The command:
<java_home>/bin/java -version

will tell you what version and maintenance level.  IMO, it is not very useful 
to install Java on z/OS via SMP/E because of the way that it is
maintained.   The downside is the extra space required for SMP/E.  Does
anyone see a benefit?
</snip>

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