Mark, As a experienced Sysprog and vendor haven't seen much of unwanted APF changes, seen a lot of lack of RACF, Sysprog, design, troubleshooting issues, too numerous to go into.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Nov 11, 2013, at 1:17 PM, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
