On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:44:41 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>Does IBM supply the tool to do this as part of the ServerPac? They supply doc and sample commands for the merge. > Is >its operation automated, even to the minimal extent of copying >from /samples any _essential_ members (such as magic) not >otherwise present in /etc? > Did my systems programmer overlook >a highly recommended health checker step? Would health >checke have reported this defect? > There are / have been some health checks related to required changes or functions going away. Not one for this particular issue, because it isn't a change and no one assumes you are going to throw away your /etc with an upgrade any more than they would assume you are starting with a SYS1.PARMLIB that has no members customized. If you were going to use z/OS Unix for the first time (which is not an option these days, it has to be working for too many things), you would need start by reading / following the z/OS Unix System Services Planning manual. One of the sections talks about this: ========================= 8.9 Copying configuration files In order to use z/OS UNIX shells and utilities, you must copy the configuration files listed in Table 24 to the specified directory. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/bpxzb2c0/8.9?SHELF=all13be9&DT=20110607081355 or http://tinyurl.com/9ww8os2 ========================= Some products (like communications server) have additional customization steps that are documented in their manuals as well and if you have a vanilla /etc, from serverpac you may be missing other things as well or running with different options. -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
