At 10:54 -0500 on 04/23/2010, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: ACCEPT and
RELFILES deleted:
I have always considered the possibility of cloning an additional DLIB zone
for those cases where I needed to restore some maintenance but couldn't
because of prereqs.
This points out what is IMO a MAJOR design flaw in the way RESTORE
works. If I want to restore a SYSMOD, it should be able to restore
the elements in the SYSMOD by selecting the copies that were replaced
by the SYSMOD without needing to use copies of other elements in the
SYSMODs that have the needed elements.
IOW: If SYSMOD1 contains E1 and E2 (and PREs SYSMOD2 which contains
E1 and E3 and SYSMOD3 which contains E2 and E4) then to RESTORE
SYSMOD1 just use E1 from SYSMOD2 and E2 from SYSMOD3 WITHOUT needing
to RESTORE SYSMOD2 and SYSMOD3 (and their PRE/SUP chain until E1, E2,
E3, E4 [and all the other elements that are conatined in the chain])
have been RESTORED followed by an APPLY of all the SYSMODs (except
for SYSMOD1) which were just uselessly RESTORED due to the poor
design of RESTORE. IMO, a RESTORE should be done by doing the
equivelent of an APPLY of ONLY the elements that are being backed off
WITHOUT needing to touch any element that is not contained in the
SYSMOD being RESTORED.
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