Re: What's an iASP?

Reasonable explanation. That said, there are reasons for many of the job
description setting that multiple customers will all have set different
based on how they run their system and the software suite. Why not honor
them and spend the time to get software working so that customization of
work management options will not mess it up. It's not that hard.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:47 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I try to "seek first to understand, then to be understood". When it comes
to those SBMJOBs perhaps they were burned too often by people who always
changed the defaults to some other value which caused them issues? I
still wouldn't hard code it and I would use job descriptions. I would not
use standard values, like QDFTJOBD, but would use custom ones. And the
installation guide might say "we use these job descriptions and we have
these values on that job description, and WHY. With maybe some clause
that changing them is at your own peril. Maybe even a sample problem in
the trouble shooting steps that says "because you changed the job
description".


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From: "Jim Oberholtzer" <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/14/2018 03:39 PM
Subject: What's an iASP?
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That question was just asked of me by an OEM software vendor that is well
known and been in the AS/400/iSeries/System i/IBM i space for quite some
time. I was asking if the software they sell would run in an iASP so it
could be replicated by PowerHA.

Then I went on to discover that rather than use the job description
values,
in all of the software the values were hard coded into the various SBMJOB
commands in the software.

How do these guys stay in business?

If you are an OEM software vendor, at least try and keep up with the
terminology so you don't sound as ignorant as this one is. Better yet
support the new technology available. Clearly I will not identify the
company but geesh.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
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