There is a shop where the current philosophy is to not put on any maintenance other than a PTF here and there if it is needed for a problem. But no RSU maintenance. Instead of maintenance, the plan is to just reinstall z/OS and all related products anytime they want to refresh the maintenance level, including in between z/OS upgrades.
When it was suggested that a reinstall requires so much more effort and risk compared to RSU maintenance, the response was "it doesn't really and that a lot of shops do it that way". Sure there are some shops that never put on maintenance in-between upgrades, except the PTFs required for a problem. Are there other places that regularly reinstall everything instead of putting on maintenance? Are there benefits to this approach? Would this approach bother you? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
