I would recommend the following: 1. Establish naming conventions for SMP datasets, target volumes and distribution volumes that make backing up and restooring a single system easier.
2. Use static system symbols to allow promoting a new system easier, without any need to change volume serial numbers or change PARMLIB. I'm pretty sure that the initialization and tuna documentation has examples of how to do that. 3. Document everything. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Bill Giannelli [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 5:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cloning SMPe Global, Target and DLIB Hi Wayne, Thanks for the response! So, my current CSI, zones and underlying datasets are all within one storage group, mixed in with other unrelated various datasets. In order to guarantee a better backup, should I have our storage team define a separate new storage group solely for new HLQ? This way the restore, if ever needed, would be easier? thanks Bill On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 20:22:53 +1100, Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote: >ADRDSSU . DUMP and RESTORE with HLQ rename. After that, you'll need to >modify DDDEFs to reflect the newly created underlying datasets. > >On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 8:08 PM Bill Giannelli <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> What is the best or recommended way to copy or clone a SMPe Global CSI, >> Target and Dlib with all the underlying datasets? >> I want to create a new HLQ and clone under that. >> thanks >> Bill >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > >-- >Wayne V. Bickerdike > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
