... by real mainframe programmers, without benefit of documentation LOL. We tell them
BINARY GET fmid.pax (REPLACE Everything is in that one piece and then we have them do pax -rv -f /blahblah/fmid.pax and then ogetx /blahblah/fmid/INSTJCL MY.PDS and they are off and running. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 2:11 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SMPE MCS construction question re aliases On Thu, 28 May 2015 13:52:56 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Geez. See the first paragraph in my OP. <g> > >Yeah, a lot of tape in there. When IBM was asking here about software delivery >not on tape I should have said "will you update the SMPE manuals also?" > Me, too. >Yes, we use GIMZIP. And GIMSMP. And pax. All we are supporting currently for >delivery is FTP from our server. We support FTP straight to the customer's >mainframe, because a customer told me "if I have to use a PC to install it, >it's not a real mainframe program." Okay, whatever. > Must the customer do BINARY; MGET to get all the piece parts (which sounds like few in your case)? If you can support "FTP straight" it's hardly any extra effort for you to support RECEIVE FROMNETWORK (but it burdens the customer with crafting CLIENT and SERVER data sets). We don't support FTP straight; partly security; partly a Corporate Standard requiring everything, product or service, to be in a .zip. I suppose the customer could unzip it with "jar", but rather I pax everything into a superarchive and zip that. >SMPE is in place. The only thing new was a load module with an alias that is >critical to its operation. If it's a "real mainframe program", it's delivered in individual ++MOD elements and linked at customer's site with ++JCLIN. That permits far more chaotic maintenance than ++PROGRAM. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
