I do agree with Ed.
If you never accept, you will have a lot of difficulties to restore a PTF or a
usermod.
We do a daily receive order of PTF's and Holddata.
On a weekly base, we also do a receive of the information for the SECurity
INTegrity PTFS.
Before we start applying maintenance, we backup all the information for a
product (SMPE CSI, targets, dlibs).
We then perform a Accept on RSU level. The RSU level we accept is the previous
RSU level used for apply - 2.
RSU21*
RSU22*
RSU23*
RSU2401 /* TREL 2410 */
RSU2402 /* TREL 2410 */
RSU2403 /* TREL 2411 */
RSU2404 /* TREL 2501 */
RSU2405 /* TREL 2501 */
DUMMYEND)
After accept is done, we start apply with current RSU level at IBM - 1,
together with SECINT, PRP, HIPER, selective fixcat's.
It looks like this:
SOURCEID(DUMMYBEGIN
SECINT
HIPER
IBM.COEXISTENCE.*
IBM.DB2.ANALYTICSACCELERATOR.*
IBM.DEVICE.DISK.*
IBM.DEVICE.TAPE.TS7700-3957
IBM.DEVICE.SERVER.Z15-*.*
IBM.DEVICE.SERVER.Z16-*.*
IBM.DEVICE.SERVER.ZNEXT-*.*
IBM.DRIVINGSYSTEM-REQUIREDSERVICE
IBM.FUNCTION.SYSTEMRECOVERYBOOST
IBM.FUNCTION.CONCURRENTCOPY
IBM.FUNCTION.DATASETENCRYPTION
IBM.FUNCTION.EAV
IBM.FUNCTION.EXTENDEDREMOTECOPY
IBM.FUNCTION.FICON.DYNAMICCHANNELPATHMGT
IBM.FUNCTION.FLASHCOPY
IBM.FUNCTION.GDPS
IBM.FUNCTION.GDPS.PPRC-HYPERSWAP-MANAGER
IBM.FUNCTION.GLOBALMIRROR
IBM.FUNCTION.HEALTHCHECKER
IBM.FUNCTION.HYPERPAV
IBM.FUNCTION.HYPERSWAP
IBM.FUNCTION.MULTI-FACTORAUTHENTICATION
IBM.FUNCTION.PDSE
IBM.FUNCTION.PEERTOPEERREMOTECOPY
IBM.FUNCTION.PRICINGINFRASTRUCTURE
IBM.FUNCTION.RACF.*
IBM.FUNCTION.SERVERTIMEPROTOCOL
IBM.FUNCTION.SMFLOGSTREAM
IBM.FUNCTION.SMFRECORD
IBM.FUNCTION.SYSPLEXDATASHARING
IBM.FUNCTION.TDMF
IBM.FUNCTION.UNIXFILEBACKUP
IBM.FUNCTION.VSAM*
IBM.FUNCTION.ZEDC
IBM.FUNCTION.ZSORT
IBM.FUNCTION.ZHIGHPERFORMANCEFICON
IBM.MIGRATE-FALLBACK.*
IBM.PRODUCTINSTALL-REQUIREDSERVICE
IBM.TARGETSYSTEM-REQUIREDSERVICE.*
PRP
RSU21*
RSU22*
RSU23*
RSU2401 /* TREL2406 */
RSU2402 /* TREL2406 */
RSU2403 /* TREL2408 */
RSU2404 /* TREL2410 */
RSU2405 /* TREL2410 */
RSU2406 /* TREL2411 */
RSU2407 /* TREL2411 */
RSU2408 /* TREL2501 */
RSU2409 /* TREL2501 */
DUMMYEND)
With this methodology we don't have big issues if we want to restore things via
SMP/E.
The chain of PTFS is manageable and we don't aggressively accept stuff.
The initial accept and apply are always done on cloned (INSTALL TEST)
environments.
We gather the list of PTF's accepted and applied and do a specific accept and
apply of these PTFS on our real installation environment.
We do this 8x a year.
regards, Luc
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