Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!MARIST!URMM From: URMM@MARIST.BITNET (Martha McConaghy) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.vmxa-l Subject: Re: R2.1 Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 90 16:04:46 GMT Sender: VM/XA Discussion List Reply-To: VM/XA Discussion List Lines: 15 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 1 Feb 90 09:05:12 EST from >This is interesting. Just for the sake of "how bout this" to those who >have not experienced SP R6... Maintenance of certain components relies on >the SFS -- TSAF, GCS, VTAM just to name 3 off the top of my head. >This is what prompted my original question of "is SFS on XA's CMS" -- the >use of SFS for MAINT's purposes seemed to forshadow a trend, here. >We all know that IBM is very trendy about this stuff. ;-) You're kidding, aren't you??? They are really using SFS for maintenance???!!! UGH! We were planning to avoid it as long as we could. We run MUSIC/SP which gives us all we need in terms of file sharing and didn't want to have to deal with the headaches at this point. At the risk of sounding negative, I have a bad feeling that could become the sequel we were all dreading, "Son of SES". Martha