On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:25:09 -0400, Klein, Kenneth <[email protected]> wrote:
>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? >Before every APPLY? >Never? Search the archives. Look for the best practices session from SHARE given by Greg Daynes. Bottom line: You should be accepting maintenance (for any software) on a regular basis that goes along with your apply cycles in order to have a restore point. For z/OS, my "best practice" is to ACCEPT six months behind the apply level. 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
