On 12/11/2024 6:15 AM, Tom Longfellow wrote:
I have never been a member of the 'Never ACCEPT' club.
Which is the same as the 'Never RESTORE' club. Who would do that?
Not being able to back off a bad APAR/PTF seems unacceptable to me. NOT
a best practice.
How do the members of that club do it? A point-in-time restore of their
CSIs and target library backups? IMHO that's insane!
I've heard the SMP/E philosophy described as: RECEIVE, APPLY, ACCEPT.
That might be true for an FMID being newly installed, but for service it
is far better described as either RECEIVE, ACCEPT, APPLY or the
alternative SMPPTS space-saving approach of ACCEPT, RECEIVE, APPLY.
These days, with RECEIVE ORDER occurring every night while we sleep, in
practice it's really usually just: ACCEPT, APPLY.
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