On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 02:49:53 +0100, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You'll note the recommendation *not* to have CLPA permanently specified in >your IEASYSxx member. > >After a change to the "LPALST concatenation", CLPA need be specified for one >IPL and one IPL only. <snip> That may be the recomendation in the manual, but I think virtually all shops that don't use checkpoint/restart specify it. The extra minute or two during each IPL far outweighs the chances that CLPA will be missed by the operator when you need it. With the operating system being so stable these days (and for a *long* time now), IPLs are often done just to bring in IBM maintenance - which would probably include updates to libraries in the LPA concatenation anyway. Perhaps the recommendation in the manual should be changed with a note added about checkpoint/restart. As a side note... I originally wrote IPLINFO (which at that time consisted of the "IPL section" only with less information than there is today) just to find out if the system was IPLed with CLPA over the weekend if the operator was instructed to do so (this was the same shop that the auditors didn't want it done unless there was a documented change being made). When the CLPA option in IEASYSxx became available, we didn't hesitate to add it in. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - GITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
