On Tue, 12 May 2015 11:33:45 -0700, retired mainframer wrote: > > ... We could disable the OMVS and ISHELL TSO commands and no one would > notice. > Might they still use Rexx "address SYSCALLL ..."?
>There is no user data in any of our HFS/ZFS datasets. > Unless they put it there. >If we could go from DVD directly to SMPPTFIN and SMPHOLD, ... > What about RELFILEs? >using DVDs would be more attractive. ... > Where would you mount the DVDs? IBM needs to address this. If IBM says, "Desktop system," IBM better make such a system available, even if only through independent vendors, but with requirements rigorously specified. (I should be able to go into Best Buy with a printout of IBM's requirements and say to the Blue Shirt, "Sell me one of these.") >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. > "O, Brave New World..." How traumatic was your accommodation to 31-bit addressing? But does IBM document packaging requirements for ISVs? Publication number? >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. > Yah. How would one build a driver system from DVD? Linux for Intel? I slip the DVD into the slot and click a few times. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
