On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:37 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > OK, I misunderstood. I interpreted the "must be SMPE installed" as "we won't even consider any alternate for installation and maintenance. No SMPE means we will refused to get or use a product." As to the "shar" script - it does a full install of the product (aka "level set"). I don't know how Dovetailed Technologies does maintenance for a company with a maintenance contract. Perhaps Kirk will say. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > -- 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
