As the speaker for the session being described, I think it is important to understand that while as the abstract states "For many years IBM has left software deployment as an exercise for the user. Over those years, many innovative approaches were used to deploy new releases or maintenance upgrades." The SHARE session will provide an overview of several of the approaches, identifying their merits and pitfalls, as well as provide IBM recommendations. Please note that some of the recommendations are subjective, based on values put on a set of attributes (e.g., system integrity, availability, ease of use, DASD space, ...). The intent is to give the attendees enough information to validate or change their own deployment procedures.
For those that have either been to one of my sessions, or viewed the handout on www.share.org, know that I will provide a document that will describe SYSRES cloning. Please note that I hope the session will be interactive, and we will get to compare some of the attendee's deployment procedures with IBM's the best practices. Therefore, the 'document' may evolve based on what happens during the session. If anyone wants to share their deployment procedures with me, feel free to send me a directly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Greg Daynes z/OS Installation Deployment Architect ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
