Most posts in this thread seem to support the strategy of 'cloning a running system in order to do maintenance'. For as long as I can remember, we have pursued the opposite strategy: the service environment is permanent for the life of a ServerPac and is cloned to produce running systems to populate the Enterprise. DDDEFs, once defined, are never changed; hence the chance of error is near zero. There is no overlap between service and running systems. The service environment is dump/restored to create running system(s) with identifiers like sysplex and/or sysres name embedded in the restored objects. Everything is shared within a sysplex; nothing is shared across sysplex boundaries.
This strategy is probably incompatible with z/OSMF managed maintenance, but we have yet to give that a go. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Chambers, James > Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 08:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Bulk] Re: Cloning a Sysres and ZFS > > Hi Tom, > > We already include it like OMVS.RESPR1.ROOT but the DDDEF only has the > path. The below shows a DDDEF taken from the apply, it still means I need to > make sure I got the mount right and the ZONEEDIT unlike the standard > DDDEFs that use the volser to make sure the correct dataset is updated. > > DDDEF NFSCUTIL PATH '/Service/usr/lpp/NFS/IBM/ and PATHHFS > OMVS.RESDD2.ROOT > > Thanks > > James > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: 18 January 2016 15:46 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Cloning a Sysres and ZFS > > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:41:32 +0000, Chambers, James wrote: > > >Is there a better way to deal with the HFS or ZFS DDDEFs? > > Include the SYSRES VOLSER as part of the dsname. When you mount it, you > can use &SYSRES in the mount specification. > > -- > Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
