On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, 18:35 Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS, <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> writes:

> SMIT - just say no.
... it would show me the command
line it was about to run.

Ditto. The only SMIT or AIX feature I used/liked.
Oh, that and mksysb.
*maybe* the volume manager, if none was the alternative.

Eventually got to understand (some of) the AIX  stanza files & interactions, though also always hated them -- and no software worked/ported easily. Then I mercifully escaped AIX, after Wang went ch.11 -- a former manager/colleague had hired me into Wang Australia when they started selling HP, IBM & MIPS boxen along with PC office networks to avoid going broke, but weren't quick-footed enough.


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