On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 07:59:00 -0500, Daniel McLaughlin <[email protected]> wrote:
>We've been invited to a D&P on this next week. After reviewing some of the >demos and documentation I sure don't see how it makes life easier..comments >from those who have trod that road? Search the archives for past posts of mine. I like it ... a lot. And realizing that it is still a very new product and hasn't matured yet, I see tons of potential. I had a long laundry list of items I discussed with development after I installed and worked with R2 and many of those items are already addressed in R3 which is now GA. BTW, I just upgraded from R2 to R3 over the weekend mostly because I was interested in the deployment function (but there are some other nice features also). In trying to test a deployment, it looks like it will only work with "future" (from here on out) product packages and nothing that existed prior to a specific date. I tried a deployment with CA-MIM 11.7 SP1 which is the most current level and there is no deployment metadata. Also, we "deploy" by copying install libraries to an "ISV sysres" that is an extension of our maintenance sysres set and clone it along with our IBM sysres to roll out maintenance / upgrades via IPLs. The libaries are all indirectly cataloged as are all the sysres data sets. This means we copy them without cataloging them to the volume that gets cloned, and from what I can tell so far, there is probably not an option to do that. That may not be an issue if the process doesn't fail if the libraries are already cataloged - which they will be - indirectly - unless it is a new name / library for whatever product we are deploying. In that case, I would uncatalog the file after copy and indirectly catalog it. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
