Kurt, Is there a demo Portable Software Instance that could used to try out the Z/OSMF stuff, for example a HelloWorld program Colin
On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 at 21:47, Kurt Quackenbush <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yes.&whatever. As I wrote before, there's way too much "take this job > and find the 27 places that say XYZZY and change them to the right HLQ." > instead of "Run it with these variables set as follows". This makes > creating and documenting SMP/E installs a lot more work than they should > need to be. > > Yup, there's often lots of JCL samples to be massaged to perform an SMP/E > install. Create CSIs, allocate target and dlib data sets, update DDDEF > entries, ... Which is one of the reasons why z/OSMF Software Management > and Portable Software Instances exist. Any provider (not just IBM) can > create a Portable Software Instance containing their software product using > z/OSMF and distribute it to their clients, and the clients can install the > software contained in the Portable Software Instance using z/OSMF. No JCL > massaging required. > > Kurt Quackenbush > IBM | z/OS SMP/E and z/OSMF Software Management | [email protected] > > Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies PTFs. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
