Well, In my opinion there is no such tool or process. Few remarks: 1. Assuming you have such checker and just tested BPXPRM member. Few minutes later things may change - someone can delete or rename some ZFS. Or just modify BPXPRM. 2. "Prior IPL" is a little bit ambigous. Does it mean the system is down? Or it is up and you want to re-IPL it? For non-IPLed system you would have to access datasets from other (tech) system. It is possible, but a little bit hard for VSAM ZFS. Of course "before re-IPL" scenario is much simpler. 3. It is not matter of ZFS dataset names and typos. Or missing datasets. What about mount point? Mount point, a path ma be nonexistent - this can be checked before re-IPL. However mount point can be simply wrong.
My advices: 1. Simply protect BPXPRM against hasty changes. It's obvious, just track all the updates. Comments are your friend. 2. The above simplify and reduce effort needed to check it manually. Just check latest changes, especially changes made after last IPL. 3. Keep it simple. Documentation would help. 4. One can create the following REXX script: read every filesystem name and list it i.e. using listdsi. Also read every mount point and check its existence in z/OS Unix. HTH -- Radoslaw Skorupka (currently unemployed) Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
