Hi Gil,
This reminds me of a story ... I say that a lot, just ask my kids.
Way back in the late late '80s, I worked at a national Canadian bank.
They had been used to getting tapes from IBM when they ordered
maintenance (for both VM and MVS) and would not even consider VNET
compressed maintenance delivered electronically.
Of course, most Canadian shops had already been getting electronic data
by this time.
I went over to the 2nd in command VM guy and asked why I would have to
wait a week for delivery of a tape when it could he delivered
electronically in under an hour.
He had this irrational xenophobia against it and since he was the
gatekeeper, his manager wouldn't budge either.
I asked him to explain this M'shugaas (Yiddish for insanity) and he
retorted: "Ahh ... you do not understand banking. How do you know that
IBM will not flip a bit when the data is compressed/uncompressed?"
I retorted: "Even if you get a tape, how do you know the the object code
is intact?" He had no answer for this.
Incidentally his manager had a well-deserved nickname "FH". (The "H" is
an abbreviation for "head".)
Regards,
David
On 2023-03-14 17:45, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:21:34 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:
...
For such products, the value-add SMP/E provides is often just RECEIVE
ORDER, but even that is dependent upon the software vendor standing up a
RECEIVE ORDER server back at the "Ranch."
Our sheriff deemed the MVS "Ranch" an outlaws' hideout; wouldn't tolerate
RECEIVE ORDER, requiring that all product be delivered in .zip files for
consistency. I packaged the SMPNTS, README.html, and JCL in the .zip.
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