>For this one, though, since we built the download code into the dialog >itself, we thought it safe to assume you had a copy of it already. So, >we did not see the need to allow a first-time installation path for it. > Since I wrote that design (quite some time ago), I have never heard >anyone find it odd until now!
Count me in as the first to find this odd. >We probably should have documented a recovery path, in retrospect, in >case someone's existing dialog went missing or did not work. (Everyone >has at least two copies of the dialog, one in the "master" data sets and >another in the order-specific data sets. You can recover from bad >master data sets by copying the order data sets' content into them.) We don't. For the simple reason that for the past x releases in my current installation the actual install of a new z/OS release was done by IBM as a service for the installation ($$$). We got the already installed system on several 3390 and then had to make it fit our installation. I have completely remodeled the SMP/E environment and the local install process since I joined 18 months ago. z/OS 2.3 will be the first release (after 10-15 years) that someone (namely me) will do the actual install in-house, which will ultimately be faster and cost us less money. So I was wondering how I would get the serverpac dialogs. I meant to ask Marna last week at zTU but ultimately forgot. So how will I get the dialogs? Mind you - we do NOT have an internet connection from our mainframe, so I will order whatever needs to get ordered on DVD anyway. Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
