Re: The new IBM Installation Manager

["Dave Shaw" <daveshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

2 reasons in my case:

1) I saw Jeff's post and was curious.

2) When people install here, we tell them to install with the updates.  Since I've been tagged as the 'go-to' guy for WDSCi, I have to try to keep track of what's going to happen when they run it so I can answer any questions that they throw at me.  They like it better when I can say "I don't know why they do it that way, but don't worry, it'll work" than when I say "Gee, I've never seen THAT before".  I'm sure you know how that goes.

Dave Shaw
Mohawk Industries

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries" <wdsci-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] The new IBM Installation Manager


> Dave Shaw wrote:
> > I get the same thing.  I'm thinking you're probably right, although my read of it is that if Installation Manager can't find any updates, it's blaming the user now.  We're all terrible people for wasting its time... LOL
> >   
> I did as well.
>
> Just wondering... why are people updating IM?  Just checking for new 
> goodies?  I had to update to the latest version in order to install RDi, 
> but otherwise I wouldn't have gone looking for updates unless I heard 
> there was a new version of one of the tools I was using.