On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:25:23 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > >This is an issue since the design of RESTORE is broken due to its >poor handling of SUPS/PREs If I can Apply a SYSMOD I should be able >to restore it without needing to also restore any SYSMODs it PREs. >IOW: If it PREs SYSMOD1 which has Elements EL1 and EL2 and contains >only a new EL1, then a restore should be able to just select EL1 from >SYSMOD1 and not need to also restore SYSMOD1 (along with its PREs >which then need to be Applied again). > Several releases ago, at OS/390 V2R5.0 SMP/E, SMP/E introduced the "Improved load module build processing", which for building _new_ load modules during _APPLY_ processing supported fetching ++MOD elements from the GLOBAL zone. Alas, it does not support such selection when updating a load module as in RESTORE, nor selecting other element types such as ++MAC from the GLOBAL zone. It's a pity that SMP/E did not follow through to provide such function as you (and I) want for greater flexibility of RESTORE. If that were done, ACCEPT would become a needless function.
IBM has stated that the design objective of RESTORE is to reset objects to an ACCEPTed level; as such it performs its function admirably and needs no enhancement. You and I feel differently from IBM here. The corresponding VM facilities, VMFMERGE and VMSES/E have no requirement for a function analogous to ACCEPT. Accordingly, they provide the flexibility we'd like to see in SMP/E RESTORE. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
