At 14:13 -0400 on 09/13/2006, David Cole wrote about Re: Non-SMP/e packaging:
Because our maintenance is cumulative, not incremental.
- That means that the latest maintenance file always
contains all maintenance, not just the most recent.
A simple SUP (of all the prior Maintenance SYSMOD IDs tells SMPE this fact).
- That means that the file as a whole has to be APPLY'd to
the instance of the product that existed immediately
after initial install.
WHAT? You should be replacing the current versions of any Element
that has been updated since the original release (thus replacing any
copy that was previously updated) so there is NO NEED for it to be at
FMID Release levels as you imply is required.
- That means that all prior maintenance has to be removed
before the new maintenance file can be successfully
APPLY'd.
WHY? If you are supplying an "updated since original release" version
of an element, why does the fact that the element is not at the
original release level prevent the successful install of the
cumulatively updated copy?
- And that's what RESTORE and REJECT do.
- And that's why our canned maintenance JCL contains
RESTORE, REJECT, RECEIVE and APPLY, in that order.
In other words, the process is fully automated by a
single job.
See Above. There is NO need for the current maintenance status an
element to matter so long as it is a cumulative update of all changes
to that element since original release and the update chain is
documented in the SUPs.
BTW: From your description, you are shipping the equivalent of an IBM
FMID FUNCTION Refresh. Such refreshes, can be APPLY'ed over ANY prior
version of that FMID so long as the refresh is at a higher
maintenance level than the FMID is currently at (if not then you must
include all the missing Maintenance [ie: That which is already
Applied] via an explicate naming in the Select or implicitly via
GROUPEXTEND).
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