On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:04:52 -0600, Paul Peplinski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >Perhaps it is the technique used here that causes difficulties. We have >hourglass create copies of these modules and then steplib to those copies. >Retrofitting for LE and DB2 updates is a manual process. This technique does >prevent the use of hourglass in production. On the other hand you do not >want to call IBM for DB2 support only to find out you are running a copy of >DSNXGRDS that you completely forgot about. > One of our major sysplexes does it your way and have run into problems on multiple occasions. Not to mention apps using old levels of LE that the system people don't know about some times. However, I can understand not wanting to let HG anywhere near production (even though it has never caused a problem that I know if since 1998 when it was first used via usermod to the "live" LE modules). An alternative is to create a dummy usermod to at least flag for maintenance. I have done that on many occasions, and then performed whatever steps are needed outside of SMP/E. For example, I had a shared sysres between different environments running DFSORT and they all wanted their own set of default options. I create the dummy usermod that flags me and then asm/lnk the options outside of SMP/E into a system specific library that's ahead of the IBM library in the LNKLST / LPA concatenation. I've seen this done at many shops. 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
