Gil asked: "Do customers of ISVs generally welcome products that require PDSE?"
Speaking only for myself: It is irrelevant to me how a vendor packages its product. Just give me accurate installation and customization instructions. Cheers,,,Steve Steven F. Conway, CISSP LA Systems z/OS Systems Support Phone: 703.295.1926 [email protected] From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 08/21/2012 01:13 PM Subject: Re: GOFF Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:20:29 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: > >EJ writes that > >| There are indeed many restrictions, but few of them matter. > >My view is different. I, for example, find longer-than-8-character >names very convenient, indeed essential in table-generation macros >that generate a great many RSECTs. > Also modern programming languages. Alas, our laboratory configuration precludes practical use of PDSE (too many systems at too broad a span of releases (some EOS) for Sysplex). Alas, alas, UNIX directories, a possible alternative, are not supported in STEPLIB concatenation. Feels like material for a Requirement. Do customers of ISVs generally welcome products that require PDSE? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
