-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SMP/E
Gibney, Dave wrote: > Ok, I couldn't read such granularity in the syntax. It seemed all or > nothing in the manual. My confusion. > I had the same fear when I looked at the syntax. 'DEL MAC(macname)' looks like it's going to delete the MAC entry. And it will, unless you specify a subentry keyword. Then it just deletes the subentry. (Whew!) <snip> Thanks to our Exchange server, I have missed quite a bit of this (and I can't tell if I'm about to tell you something you have already discussed). Given that, might I suggest what we used to call the three step dance (which worked because where I was we had at least 3 components (FMIDs) to our installs). If you do not have a "Primary" and a dependent, then this probably won't work. At any rate the idea was to move the "fouled" element, and while doing that, correct its attributes so that things work correctly going forward. 1) Step one, you delete the element (via APAR or PTF) 2) Step two, you add the element under a different FMID (that is available to you) via PTF 3) Step three, you take it back over with a PTF from the original FMID At Step two, you change the information that you needed to change (options, etc.). At step three, it all comes back together. (At least that is the way I remember doing this at Droole & Babble when we had a conflict and needed to fix it as painlessly as possible for customers). And all of this had to be done one step at a time (that is, you had to apply each PTF separately; they can't be done in a group). But it made it easy for customers to handle -- Because we also used HOLD ACTION to help them stay out of trouble. Later, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
