On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:46:59 -0700, Tom Brennan wrote:
> ...
>So I went back to my desk determined to map/dump the tape contents and
>do the install without knowing what SMP was. About 10 minutes later I
>gave up and looked for someone else to help :)
>
Sounds like the Good Old Days when (most) use of SMP/E didn't require
RACF privileges.
But we had a customer who didn't follow our instructions to RECEIVE FROMNTS
but insisted on GIMUNZIP and RECEIVE from data sets. I learned this, alas,
when I made a packaging error which passed our installation instructions but
broke in GIMUNZIP.
We apologized and asked the customer (diplomatically) to follow the instructions
for the current release and I fixed it in the current release.
IIRC my error was that I coded a certain option value as "0" which FROMNTS
accepted where GIMUNZIP requires that the option be omitted entirely.
>On 3/14/2023 11:43 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>>
>> Yes, and it is a *VERY* bad idea.
>>
A User once requested"
"Please package your product simply with TRANSMIT rather than SMP/E."
"IBM doesn't do it that way"
"Oh, yes they do. For example ..."
He cited a product from a recently acquired ISV that IBM hadn't yet converted.
I can't recall whether the "User" was a customer or a co-worker who wanted to
simplify integration testing.
--
gil
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