>SMP/E for z/OS IBM User's Guide SA23-2277-30 ... appears to say otherwise:
No. Read what I actually wrote. The configuration information for an SMP4 or earlier environment is in multiple data sets, of which the CDS is only one. The CDS is the equivalent of a target zone, not of the entire CSI, and the manual you cited does not claim otherwise. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [External] Old School Maintenance Philosophy -- Never ACCEPT? On Wed, 23 May 2018 18:55:21 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >The CDS may have been an equivalent to a target zone, but not to the entire >CSI. You won't get very far without a PTS and ACDS. > SMP/E for z/OS IBM User's Guide SA23-2277-30 ... appears to say otherwise: The consolidated software inventory (CSI) The CSI data sets contain all the information SMP/E needs to track the distribution and target libraries. As the card catalog contains a card for each book in the library, the CSI contains an entry for each element in its libraries. The CSI entries contain the element name, type, history, how the element was introduced into the system, and a pointer to the element in the distribution and target libraries.*The*CSI*does*not*contain*the *element*itself*, but rather a description of the element it represents [emphasis added] This seems to use "CSI" to refer to the VSAM data sets, but not to PDSes that contain actual elements. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
