We do have specific FIXCAT runs for scheduled hardware or software upgrades,
but this is the blanket report we run to cover all the bases in the ninth
inning of a general maintenance upgrade. (Pardon the baseball metaphor.)
REPORT MISSINGFIX
FIXCAT(*)
ZONES(MVST100)
My view is that RSU incorporates a lot of PTFs that are not necessarily
critical. Many range from cosmetic to new function that we can live without a
little while longer. All are good to have at some point but do not necessarily
bear on immediate operability. FIXCAT OTOH is more likely to focus HIPERs and
really important stuff that should be swept in to the mix if feasible,
especially if a -n RSU has been chosen.
Once again, I imagine what I will tell the boss. ;-)
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Mark Zelden
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2017 3:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: (External):Re: RSU maintenance strategy - Need expert suggestions
On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 07:35:31 -0600, Tom Marchant <[email protected]>
wrote:
>On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 17:04:15 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 20:05:15 +0000, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
>>
>>>... As others have suggested, pay attention to HIPER and FIXCAT, and
>>>ERRORSYSMOD reports.
>>
>>What Skip said! ...
>>
>>The part I wanted to stress the Skip wrote (and why I chimed in) was
>>his advise to pull the HOLDDATA and run report errorsysmods when you decide
>>to go forward.
>
>I agree with Skip and Mark. I would add that it is good to run a MISSINGFIX
>report.
>And receive the latest HOLDDATA before every APPLY and ACCEPT.
>
Of course that won't hurt, but the time to run MISSINGFIX is when you are
implementing new hardware features, new software features, OS upgrades etc.
What FIXCAT categories do you do it on for normal maintenance? I could see
running it for
IBM.TargetSystem-RequiredService.z/OS.* and
IBM.TargetSystem-RequiredService.z/OSMF.*,
but if a PTF was recommended for your current release it would have an RSU*
sourceid also
so that seems like an extra step that doesn't add value.
Regards,
Mark
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