[email protected] (R.S.) wrote: <snip>
In fact I have never orderded anything *from IBM* on DVD, but I assume the first step is upload DVD content to HFS. That means you require a lot of HFS space, then a lot of space for unzip and RECEIVE processes. Compare it to tape: you receive small PDS from tape then submit single job, which reads all the data from the tape. For CBPDO you get relfiles, for ServerPac you get DLIBs and TGTs. Much less space, much less potential problems to diagnose.
It's true that the files will "take a trip through the z/OS UNIX file system," just as they would for Internet-based direct-to-z/OS installation. Would it be easier if we documented (and supported) a way to mount the workstation file system on z/OS and used it as input? I'm not at all sure which would be more work, or more complex. I suspect we'd want you to copy the files to your workstation first to avoid handling the case of DVDs for the package.
Last, but not least: when you order physical media, you get a box(es) with few manuals and a lot of CDs and DVDs. If you want to download it you have to assign many gigabytes of PC storage of ISO images, and (more important) you consume a lot of Internet connection bandwidth. (of course this is for Internet delivery, not for DVD as replacement for tape media).
This was a deliberate choice. In some tax jurisdictions, providing anything at all in physical format (even one piece of paper) renders the entire product taxable when it otherwise would not be.
<snip> -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
