On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Edward Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gil (or anyone): > Does dovetail ship their products in SMPE installable format or ? The > company I am helping has a issue with *ANY* product that is not SMPE > installable. > Before I go to bat for Dovetail, I would like to know that issue, if not I > won’t bother. I tried to use their forum and it won’t let me ask the > question as to cost for Gold for all 3 of their products. I refuse to spend > my time for a simple question. > The standard distribution of Dovetailed Technologies' Co:Z products is _not_ done with SMPE. Basically, it is a "shar" executable. "shar" is a "SHell ARchive". I guess the closest equivalent would be a Windows "msi" executable installation program. You download the file into a UNIX directory; change it's permissions to include executable; then execute it in a UNIX shell environment. The install script will basically ask you to agree with the license; specify the UNIX directory to hold the UNIX files; specify 2 PDS library names to hold the "source" data (JCL + config) and the z/OS executable programs. I don't have a maintenance contract, so I don't know how, of if, they distribute PTFs or "patches". I use the free version. And basically I just periodically look to see if a new version is available. If so, I install it. > > Ed > > -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
