The problem with a generic name like /Service is that for some transitional 
period at least, you most likely need to maintain a viable SMPE environment for 
two different releases: the current production level and some new level being 
installed and rolled out. That's why we use, for example, /OSR13 and 
/OSR21--with similarly named zFS--in order to manage them independently. 

Production names drop the OSRxx prefix. So on the SMPE system, we have (up to) 
three distinct sets of zFS with names that make them easily identifiable. 

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J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler 
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Lucas Rosalen
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2016 4:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: (External):Re: Mounting Unique zFS for SMPE APPLY

True thing!
If SMPE is pointing to some directory that's not the "hot" one (under /Service, 
usually), then no SMPE update would be required. Simply mounting the "new" 
filesystem under the correct directory would work.
If SMPE is pointing to the "hot" path (which is weird), then it would require 
either the SMPE DDDEF update or a JCL DD override to the SMPE setup.

Anyway, it's a good idea to have a convention to easily identify the 
Maintenance filesystem and the Production one - could be a simple char in 
datasets names or something else...

Regards,

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2016-05-06 16:16 GMT-03:00 Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]>:

> On Fri, 6 May 2016 19:42:05 +0200, Lucas Rosalen wrote:
>
> >ADRDSSU copy with RENAME and either DDDEF update on SMPE or DD 
> >statement
> in
> >JCL will do the trick.
> >
> Doesn't SMP/E employ UNIX pathnames rather than DFSMF data set names, 
> making it harder to trick.
>
> Copy; update; copy back.  Ouch!  And the filesystems must be quiesced 
> (or R/O) during the copy processes.
>
> If you're sharing zFS, can they be mounted at distinct mountpoints and 
> SMP/E apprised of this in DDDEFs or symlinks?  (Unless the supplier 
> relies on absolute pathnames.)  chroot?
>
> See "rcopy" thread current in MVS-OE.  pax may require prohibitive  
> bandwidth.
>
> >On May 6, 2016 19:23, "George Henke" wrote:
> >
> >The zFS names on our SMPE maintenance system are the same as on the 
> >PROD RES VOLS.
> >
> >How do you make them unique so they can be mounted on the SMPE 
> >maintenance system for the SMPE APPLYs?
> >
> >I suppose just DSS copy and rename them to something else?


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