On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 09:27:01 -0800, Jon Perryman <[email protected]> wrote:
>Dynamic APF exists for sysprog test system and emergency situations. <snip> Valid, but I would argue that the *main* reason dynamic APF (and dynamic "anything" related to parmlib type updates) exists is "IPL avoidance" / 24 x 7 operations. Many shops still limit APF and LNKLST changes to (mostly) IPLs (including clients of mine), but that is a throw back to days of old. The only disadvantage of doing these changes dynamically all the time is that eventually you will IPL and without good change control, changes could get regressed or errors in syntax etc. at IPL time may be found. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] ITIL v3 Foundation Certified Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
