> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of John Eells > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 8:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?
> Yes, and for those who cannot connect z/OS to the Internet we do have > DVD available. My point is that receive from tape is in no way simpler > than either (a) avoiding receive (along with apply and accept) for > products entirely by ordering via ServerPac or (b) using RECEIVE ORDER > for service. (Suitability of DVD and Internet in a particular place is > of course another question.) Our shop never had any use for OMVS/USS. Unfortunately, functionality we did need, such as TCPIP and FTP, which used to operate within MVS, was moved, at least in part, to the dark side. So we dutifully created OMVS segments in our user profiles, configured a minimum BPXPRMxx, etc so we could still get our work done. We could disable the OMVS and ISHELL TSO commands and no one would notice. There is no user data in any of our HFS/ZFS datasets. If we could go from DVD directly to SMPPTFIN and SMPHOLD, using DVDs would be more attractive. But the ISV products for which we have no choice have always been problematic. Without any "feel" for Unix, we would rather have root canal that go through the aggravation of installing a product where every step of the way is completely foreign to us. Not to mention, frequently poorly documented and loaded with assumptions that a real Unix user would probably find obvious. Mounting cartridges to install a driver system with the stand-alone ICKDSF and ADRDSSU and using that to install ServerPac has always been infinitely easier. Ditto for receiving maintenance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
