I agree. We use a permanent maintenance LPAR which is generally not up.
With ServerPac, it didn’t matter we could select it as the target from our
driving system. With z/OSMF, if run on the driving system, z/OSMF wanted
the target up and wanted to communicate with it via z/OSMF. Not good for
us.
Further, PSWI uses DSS to restore the datasets and ignores any DATACLAS
parameters. Our OMVS datasets are all EXTADDR so we had to build a REXX
EXEC to copy the OMVS datasets to a newly allocated OMVS dataset with the
EXTADDR attribute. Which by the way, what happens when the ROOT grows
beyond 4GB?
There were a number of other things we ran into which escape me at the
moment.
On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 10:15 AM Shaffer, Terri <
0000017d5f778222-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Randy,
> I completely agree, This will be my 40th year working on z/OS and at
> least another 7 years to go.
>
> I find z/OSMF cumbersome. I prefer to do things close to the source. Not
> a tool to add layers of complexity and places to go wrong with yet more
> strange messages.
>
> I installed z/OS 2.5 before they eliminated SERVERPAC. I then ordered it
> again to try it thru z/OSMF, it added a lot more time, the SSA's, my SMS
> ACS routines and how things got built added to the complexity. Plus there
> are many times I would bypass steps in serverpac, that because z/OSMF is
> performing what they call checks, think idiot proofing, makes this even
> more difficult.
>
> More to come, but if I find work arounds, I will bypass in the future what
> I can in z/OSMF software installs.
>
>
> Ms Terri E Shaffer
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> I'm sure my complaints don't do any good, but I've been doing this for 25
> years (I know many of you a lot longer).
> I don't understand why IBM wants to force everyone to use z/OSMF.
> Maybe it's an attempt to attract a younger group of System Programmers.
> That's fine. However, I am not a GUI fan. I like the green screen.
> Serverpac works great. I am running into issues trying to learn z/OSMF.
> It's a waste of my time when I already know how to use Serverpac.
>
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> Running zOSMF under z/OS 2.4. In attempting to load the Portable Software
> Instance, retrieving the contents from the directory, that was used when
> the order was retrieved to our system, I get the following error.
>
> An error was found in file "/u/pinionr/TDMF/IZUD00DF.json". Error: "The
> file contains data that is not supported by the current level of z/OSMF.
> The version = 8."IZUD277E Feb 16, 2023, 10:14:02 AM
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> I have no idea how to proceed. If I need to apply maintenance to zOSMF,
> how would I be able to proceed?
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