Thanks Kurt.   This will be helpful as well. 

Ross

> On Dec 15, 2023, at 9:52 AM, Kurt Quackenbush <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 
>> If he clones the existing target and dlib zones, updates the DDDEFs and 
>> receives the new version, will SMPE try to delete the old FMID and/or the 
>> contents of the existing libraries?
> 
> Typically a new release of a product does delete the prior releases.  If you 
> are careful to update all DDDEF entries in the new target and dlib zones to 
> point to the new target and dlib data sets, then you should be safe from 
> accidentally deleting the existing FMID in the existing data sets.  But if 
> you are concerned then don't clone the existing target and dlib zones and 
> libraries; just create new, which should be about the same amount of work as 
> cloning, and the new product release I suspect supplies sample jobs to do 
> exactly that.
> 
> Kurt Quackenbush
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