Focusing on 'permitted in many corporate environments'. I know nothing about 7-Zip, but some share-ware products state that--while freely available for individual use--they are prohibited for commercial/business use. That possibility is sufficient for many corporations to disallow 'unapproved' products on employees' company-issued machines. Share-ware may get approved, but the red tape may bowl you over.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Laubenheimer Sent: Monday, September 19, 2016 12:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals) Previous releases (up to k4t4949a) would unzip using Windows Explorer/File Manager, and did not require the user to install the 7-Zip utility, which is not permitted in many corporate environments. Is there some reason that the standard PKZIP format can no longer be used? The last release of the z/OS 1.13 manuals was much larger, and still did not require 7-Zip. I tested this myself; the .zip file is only about 12 percent larger than the .7z file. In any event, the download should use a suffix of .7z (and NOT .zip) if IBM is truly delivering the file in 7-Zip format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
