We don't use SCLM either. However, I have just implemented a "skunkworks" project myself to do something. I posed on this the MVS-OE forum because it seemed to be more appropriate there. I use Dovetailed Technologies' Co:Z products. Using them, I can use "Hybrid batch" to run a series of UNIX commands on my Linux desktop. These commands basically do an automated ftp download of a number of system source datasets (PARMLIBs, PROCLIBs, and other source), each into their own subdirectory. Said subdirectories are named the same as the z/OS data set name. Each of these subdirectories is SCLM managed using the "git" SCM software (which is what is used for the Linux kernel itself). If there are any changes (which the script can easily determine due to the way that git works), I do a "tar" of the subdirectory containing this set of subdirectories, and send that tar file directly back to z/OS using Co:Z's "todsn" command which connects to the initiating batch job, causing it to write the compressed tar file to a virtual tape. I run this at 01:00 local time every day. I schedule the job via a z/OS UNIX "crontab" entry which submits the JCL. What is nice is that it is simple, with git, to determine if anything changed. And so the tar is only done if something did change. That way, I don't make a new output tape every day, but only on days when somebody changed something in one or more of the "monitored" data sets. This is all done without the need to "bother" anybody to set something up. Of course, if it were "production", then I'd be hung out to dry. But it is "for me" and so I can do as I please.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 • N. Richland Hills • TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone • [email protected] • www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets® is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. –The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company®, Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Mark Hammack > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2012 1:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SCLM for sysprogs > > We don't at my current employer, but at my last job (Fortune 100 > company) we set up SCLM to control PARMLIB, PROCLIB, and some other > system libraries through a set of exits. Mainly for version history, > but also as part of our change control process. > > Mark Hammack > z/OS Developer > Systemware, Inc. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
