There's a job run here to download IBM holddata on a weekly basis. By the time someone tries to do an ACCEPT there are so many APPLIED ptf's with pe's it's almost not worth the effort.
Alan Schwartz ASC Inc. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 8:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What is the current philosophy on running SMP/E ACCEPT on z/OS? <snip> Subject: What is the current philosophy on running SMP/E ACCEPT on z/OS? In today's environment and IBM's ever changing methods of delivering/offering maintenance and upgrades to z/OS - what are your common best practices? </snip> Generally speaking, I perform general maintenance quarterly and roll from sandbox through dev/test environments before going to production. Separate sets of SYSRES's are maintained for the various environments and "cloned" at the appropriate times. This takes about 6 months from apply to accept. I also apply this philosophy to 3rd-party and middleware products. I concur with the other poster that never accepts usermods or APAR fixes. >From the prior "base level" 1) Receive current set of maintenance/holddata. This ensures an "late breaking" problems are blocked from being applied/accepted. 2) LIST SYMODS APPLY(TZONE) NOACCEPT(DZONE). List of applied but unaccepted PTF's. 3) Edit this list to just the SYSMODID's. 4) ACCEPT CHECK S(list) GROUPEXTEND. Resolve outstanding system holds,.error holds,... 5) ACCEPT. 6) Proceed with normal apply processing for next round of maint. This ensures that only ptfs that have been "blooded" in your environment are accepted. HTH, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
