John, First, I appreciate everything you have contributed to the list, so please don't take this as an attack, but just a different perspective. I don't expect any changes... I do use the software upgrade installation path, as mentioned earlier. Your suggestions of MERGECAT's, SSA's, etc, is exactly what I am trying to eliminate. My goal and am very successful with it, is to just get the datasets layed down, and restored with no catalog manipulation, other than having to uncatalog, and rename the datasets after the restore. No new catalogs, no mergecats, no SSA's, nada.
As far as massive editting, is all pretty easy really, as mass changes cover 99% of the cases, and am prepared to continue that method. As far as your comments about relying on the same relative sysres volume, yes you are correct, and when you use your previous Serverpac config to seed the new one, you get that automatically. In my case, I choose to use a single mod-27, so it's easy. Even if I didn't, things should stay nice and tidy for the reason I mentioned. Dave ________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Principal Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 616.653.8429 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Doubt about Server Pac and Catalogs I'm not there any more, but I really doubt ServerPac Development would seriously entertain removing the requirement to catalog the data sets during installation. It solves more problems than it causes, and it's easy to discard the catalog later if you don't want it. I think it would be faster and considerably less error-prone if you instead used the software upgrade installation path, which is intended to get the end result you're after. Optionally, you could use a ServerPac catalog through (at least) the DELSSA job, ALTER its entries to use system symbols and DEVT(0000), run a REPRO MERGECAT using it and your existing catalog, and then delete the ServerPac catalog once the installation process was complete. This would eliminate the massive editing for ALLOCDS and RESTORE while getting the new catalog entries into your existing catalog. Note that both of these suggestions absolutely rely on the target data sets that you use retaining their positions on the same relative volumes in your set of target volumes. (For example, if it was on the &SYSR1 on the old system, it has to also be on &SYSR1 on the new system.) This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
