Ed, Joseph's question was about how to monitor HIPER fixes, not about how and when to apply maintenance. I try to always go through a current round of RSU maintenance before a product goes into production to keep it as current as possible just as Tom described.
As Debbie pointed out, PSP buckets are important too, expecially because of issues other than maintenance. OOPS! Gotta run outside now and retrieve Junior before the lawn service comes to mow! John Confidentiality notice: The information included in this e-mail, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, distribution or similar action is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies of the original message immediately. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Listing HIPERS On Aug 16, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Tergerson, John wrote: > ------------SNIP______________________ > Ed, if you really have nothing better to do than look every half hour > for additional HIPER maintenance, you really need a life :) Yesterday > is current enough for me. > > John > If that is what is good for you fine, personally I would expect no less from anyone. I would also expect to monitor all new hipers for at least a week (or two) after maintenance goes on. I do have a life but maintenance is part of it and if you had a baby would you leave it out on the front lawn because you have checked the neighborhood for wolves (and found none) ? When my "baby" goes into production I am in proactive mode not reactive. I don't wait for the wolf to come to my street corner. i also monitor logrec and system dumps all the time. That is how you find things that are in the process of breaking. Saying that, not all hipers are really important. If there is one out there for a component we don't use I don't rush to put it on, the next round of IPL's is fine. But if a hiper PTF came out got lets say VSAM it would go on as fast as I can schedule it (or sooner if it breaks something). This was a lesson learned by me after 5 years of MVS sysproging I have constantly refined it over the years. Yes MVS has gotten better but lessons learned, it is almost always better to be safe than have something broke at 2AM. We don't have (anymore) mega ptf tapes thanks to better testing by IBM but coders are not perfect and mistakes do happen. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
