W dniu 14.12.2024 o 18:35, Ed Jaffe pisze:
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.
It is not a matter or RESTORE, but matter of way of restore.
SMP/E RESTORE does not work in some cases, it is documented.
One of solutions would be to clone/backup set of SMP/E volumes - I mean
SMPE CSI, DLIB, TGT, etc.
You may think about it as GDG. Of course whole SMP/E volume just to
restore small PTF seems overkill, but you can still use both.
And of course there is no reason to never accept. Except lazyness.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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