Barbara Nitz wrote:
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,
You just need to place a regular order on ServerPac and follow the
directions. (See my post from a bit later yesterday.)
--
John Eells
IBM Poughkeepsie
[email protected]
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