The point to requiring use of SMP is not to satisfy a checklist, but to provide certain capabilities, e.g., tracking changes, installing fixes without having to do a "level set", backing off bad fixes, suspending the application of fixes with errors or requiring customer action. If the REXX script does everything that SMP does but in a different way then IMHO it's acceptable.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Kirk Wolf <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SFTP That's a pretty good idea John. As you mentioned, it's "shar"-ish. What is a little unique is that the post-unload processing is done with a little REXX script. Does that make up for not using SMPE? :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:42 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Allan Staller <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Not SMPE installable, however the packaging is brilliant! > > > > 1) download install file > > 2) run utility to "explode" install file. > > > > Done. Both USS and z/OS components come out of the same utility. > > > > I always thought so too. The only enhancement that I could think of would > be if the JCL in SAMPJCL would be automatically customized with the DSNs > (SAMPJCL & LOADLIB) instead of making me do it after the installation. Yes, > I am lazy at times. > > > -- > I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove > it. > > Maranatha! <>< > John McKown > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
