Mark, My predecessor and DB2 guy did install directly into the root rather than new files. My problem now is how to carry that forward into z/OS 1.9. Java was not ordered with z/OS 1.9 either. Any ideas or am I just screwed?
Jerry Mark Zelden <[email protected]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 03/11/2009 03:14 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: z/OS 1.9 installation ROOT ETC and VAR On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:32:15 -0400, Jerry Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote: >What about the other 'stuff' that is in the root I.E. JAVA 1.3? If I start >with a new root I will loose that. > Did you order Java with your ServerPac? If so, a new one comes with it. But it is a separate file system (zFS or HFS). Unless you applied things right into your root on 1.7 (which you shouldn't have), all you have in your 1.7 root for "add ons" are mount points you may have added. These same mount points need to be added in your new root for 1.9. Assuming you restored your 1.9 root and it is still mounted at /service for example, you create /service/mount_point. This of course assumes you are not in a shared file system environment with a sysplex root. For Java, it may be mounted at /usr/lpp/java - which comes with your new root anyway. We mount our java (and most other z/OS Unix installed software) at an in-house software directory. So when we install a new OS we only have to create that mount point and a couple of others that our SAP systems use. In our usermods library, I have a "UNIXMNT" member that describes the mount points we create for a new OS. It also has the required steps for CRON when using a read-only root (which is a good practice - even if not sharing it). This is also documented in Unix System Services Planning. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
