I honestly had never considered doing it this way (build one environment and then clone the updated copies), I always cloned and then updated that clone, but it makes sense that this would work just as well. It might even be more effective, although I my way has the advantage of being able to fall back both SMP/e and clone wise, whereas I think having just one service area would mean no SMP/e fallback (without a lot of work). I'll have to give this a try one time and see how it goes.
Brian On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 08:53:32 -0400, Kurt Quackenbush <[email protected]> wrote: >On 6/11/2020 11:38 AM, Bill Giannelli wrote: >> I want to setup separate SMPe environments, say 3 for different maintenance >> levels. One matching production then 2 others for maintenance levels "coming >> next". My question is, when I what to update my PROD environment with one of >> the other maintenance levels, do I need to go thru receive, apply, accept >> that I would have done in the "prior" SMPe environment? Or is there a >> quicker way to "synch" up the 2 environments? > >As many have already suggested, you should consider updating one SMP/E >environment with RECEIVE and APPLY, then clone this environment to >create or replace others. There are many existing variations on the >mechanics of this clone process. > >If you do not already have an SMP/E environment cloning process that you >like in place, you should take a look at z/OSMF Software Management. It >provides a Deploy operation that will clone your SMP/E environment, >taking care of renaming data sets, zones, updating DDDEF entries, etc. > >Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development >Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies PTFs. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
