Jim, et al,
While self-updating clients would be nice, I'm not sure how I feel about
bundling this much code into this particular client/server application.
This kind of feature would be useful not just for ADSM, but for any piece
of client software that runs all over your organization. If IBM were to
add this feature to ADSM, it would be useful to us, but it would be even
more useful if it could support other applications in addition to the ADSM
client software. I'm guessing this would be more than just a little bit
tricky.
Cornell is part of a "Mandarin Consortium" of universities, and Mandarin
has this feature in it. It works rather nicely, but it only exists for
a subset of the client platforms that we use ADSM on. We will probably
go ahead and use it someday to distribute ADSM software for those
platforms (Macintosh and Windows, primarily).
I would think that there are probably other products available in the
marketplace that do this sort of thing. If anyone knows of any, perhaps
they could mention them here, for others to consider and evaluate.
..Paul
Paul Zarnowski Phone: 607/255-4757
Cornell Information Technologies Fax: 607/255-6523
Cornell University US Mail: 315 CCC, Ithaca, NY 14853-2601
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On Thu, 27 Jul 1995 13:49:23 -0700 88130 said:
On Thu, 27 Jul 1995 13:49:23 -0700 88130 said:
>Some time ago (2+ years) I gave IBM my ADSM wish list, which included
>a request for "self updating clients". The concept being that if and
>when a back level client connects to the server, the server should
>detect that back level condition and then send down or instruct the
>client to pull down maintenance from the server. The client would
>then apply the maintenance on the fly before proceeding with whatever
>operation was originally requested. Client upgrades would be
>*transparent* and therefore less painfull than they are today. Is
>anyone else interested in such a feature or heard that it is in the
>works? If interested, please tell your IBM rep so we can get some
>steam behind this request.
>
>Jim White
>Salt River Project
>Phoenix, Az
>jwwhite AT srp DOT gov
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