On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:49:54 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>... >There are complications. It's a BAD limitation of SMP/E's RESTORE >that it can restore to no level earlier than the last ACCEPT (and >often to no level later than that). The otherwise generally inferior >VMFMERGE needs no operation comparable to ACCEPT, thus it can VMFRESTORE >to any level that hasn't been purged from the DELTA (like SMPPTS) >directory. >... "Bad" is in the eye of the beholder. The whole reason for ACCEPT is to establish a new base point from where you will not / cannot regress beyond. If you don't mind having incredibly convoluted RESTORE processes, don't ACCEPT anything except the FUNCTION. There is an obvious trade off between ACCEPT and RESTORE. Perhaps it would be a good enhancement to SMP (SMP/E2?) to provide generations of levelsets. You're free to submit a request. You are right, though. Using SMP you can go back only to the previously ACCEPTed maintenance level. You can restore libraries back to any arbitrary backup point. You can obviously do the same with backups of SMP datasets, target libraries, and DLIBS (but you probably don't want to do that if you have more than one product in the CSI). 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
