On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:10:57 -0500, Joe Aulph <[email protected]> wrote:
> >As Mark pointed out my question was in relation to SMPNTS data and whether, >after a successful RECEIVE, there was any need for it. The consensus being >that once RECEIVED it was no longer referenced. > >The reason for the Q&A was that this was the first RECEIVE FROMNETWORK that >I had done, darn I hated letting loose of tapes... >In the RECEIVE process I pointed my SMPE DDDEF for SMPNTS at >"CICSSERVICE/usr/lpp/cicsts". >The ensuing APPLY CHECK failed, RC=08. Upon investigating I found that all >the HFS files that should have followed "...../cicsts/..." were gone. >Double checking as I did, are we sure the HFS is mounted etc.... I found >that indeed nothing was left in my CICSSERVICE/...... HFS. >So I restored the HFS from a backup and am now in the APPLY process. > >But that does bring up another question: >Will the RECEIVE FROMNETWORK process overwrite, in my example, all the >directory structure beyond the mount point? >Or is my missing cicsts/... directory structure due to unknown reasons >sometimes encountered a test environment? > 1) You don't need the SMPNTS data sets for the apply. After RECEIVE is complete, everything is in the SMPPTS and RELFILEs (if they are used). 2) You should use a "work" directory for your SMPNTS, not a "product" directory / service directory that would normally be used to mount the maintenance / installation version of your product "root". As I said, I have a SMPNTS directory mounted of my "MVS" root or sysplex root depending on the environment here. Others may use /tmp if it is big enough and not a TFS that will go away when you IPL. In another one of our sysplexes, each of the major subsystem groups has their own hfs / zFS they use for SMPNTS. For example, "/download/mq" , /download/db2", etc. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
