OK. I guess our maintenance is very old fashioned. I take down my sandbox, back its volumes, then APPLY to them. IPL it with the maintenanced volumes and do all my initial testing. I then clone those volumes to replace the other system's RES and UNIX volumes using __new__ volsers. I then IPL the system's LPAR with the new RES volumes and go. Wash, rinse, repeat for each system (we only have two "production" systems).
________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Scott [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2010 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IPLTEXT and NUCLEUS dates John, >> Why can't SMP/E do the ICKDSF PUTIPL command as well? It should know the >> volser to update - it is the one containing the updated SYS1.NUCLEUS. Surely most sites do not IPL their system from the SMP/E volumes and datasets - there is normally some sort of propagation JCL to copy to "real" runtime SYSRES volumes - and as stated previously there is no harm to suffix that copy JCL with a PUTIPL. Rob Scott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
