On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 22:58:33 -0800, shai hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... >Imagine how easy it to return to your old load library in case of error and >not pray that SMP/E with the APPLY/RESTORE/ACCEPT/RECEIVE/REJECT will work >fine for you. >... That is a hollow argument. If backing out the maintenance amounts to replacing a load module (or set of load modules) - an all or nothing event, then an SMP RESTORE need not have any complications. And if that is the only kind of backout the installer is interested in, a restore of the SMP datasets and target libraries achieves the same thing. But in that case, all the actual details of the maintenance are hidden and unavailable to the installer. There is no way to back out a small part of the maintenance. Backing out part of the maintenance is the situation where RESTORE processing can get , um, interesting, but is also where SMP shows it's worth. It does all the dependency checking necessary - all the checking you would have to do by hand or with some other tool. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
