On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:15:00 +0200, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote:
>Scenario: system with several product is installed from ServerPac, then >cloned on several LPARs, including PROD and DEV. Some products like >Debug Tool or COBOL compiler are not in us on PROD. > >Q: How to "disable" such products in a manner which should be >satisfactory for IBM and safe for me (I mean system RAS and ability to >apply service). >The obvious method - deleting prodcut libraries will cause problems with >SMP/E (unless further actions will be taken) and/or need LNKLST/APF/LPA >changes. Last but not least: how to be sure that such library does >belong solely to the product, not other products/components? > >Any clue? >-- Many products that fall under this are enabled / disabled via IFAPRDxx (I'm sure you know this). So one method is to disable them. Having the products "spinning on DASD" is not a violation as long as you aren't using / executing the products. So there are various ways to do that. If it requires APF authorization, don't APF authorize it on the LPARs in question. If the catalogs aren't shared in the systems you clone to, don't catalog the data sets (although people can find them if they know where to look). Not including in LNKLST/LPA helps, but again people can still find the data sets and use JOBLIB/STEPLIB. You covered the above already, but one thing I have also done is used RACF RACF program protection with "WHEN SYSID". Another method, which again is easily bypassed by smart users, is for products that have CLIST / REXX invocation via ISPF - just add a few lines of code that checks sysid. As to your last question about how to be sure that the library belongs solely to the product, look at the PGMDIR PDS members that came with you ServerPac for each product in question and make sure the same library is not referenced in any other program directories. 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
