At 23:53 -0500 on 04/29/2011, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: SMPPTS
run out of Space (another approach):
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:31:12 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>My favorite broken/bad design is the way RESTORE works. If you
need/want to RESTORE a SYSMOD, SMPE restores that SYSMOD from the
DLIBs BUT runs the APPLY chain until it has restored not only the
elements from that SYSMOD you are restoring but also SYSMODs that are
SUPPED/PRE'ed until you get to a situation where there are no more
APPLIED mods that contain the elements.
IBM's defense of this amounts to "WAD".
To which my reply is that a better description is BAD (Broken As
Designed) since there is a better solution that does not have the
wasted effort and fall-out of the current design.
Why not just use the latest version of the elements that need to be
backed off and not remove ANY other element that is not in the SYSMOD
being restored? Too many times I have had to remove a chain of
SYSMODs just to remove a single SYSMOD only to then need to do
another APPLY of all the SYSMODs I was the forced to remove (except
for the single SYSMOD). Why not just recreate the final environment
that results by just installing the elements from whatever SYSMOD
that came from during the mass Re-Apply?
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