If PTF A has PTF B as a prerequisite, and both have been applied, but neither has been accepted, then in order to restore A, you must also restore B. GROUP will not help you here. IIRC, if you restore B and specify GROUP, SMP/E will restore both A and B, but I'm not at all sure about this.
SMPLOG is your friend for determining what has been done and how. Each zone should have a DDDEF for its own SMPLOG with DISP=MOD. The content is essentially everything from the SMPOUT output for each run with a date and time in the first few bytes of each record in packed decimal format. You can list the SMPLOG for a range of dates/times, but I usually just use VIEW to look at it, with the occasional HX line command to see the date and time. If you install Top Secret from scratch, you will have an isolated environment to play with and you can do so without worrying, as long as you define all new data sets, including for the global zone, with different names. You can even use your userid as the high level qualifier for everything. I do this frequently to test SMP/E environments. Having created this environment, you can experiment and will find it very instructive. You can also clone your target and distribution zones. That would involve using ZONECOPY to copy the zones, copy all of the target and distribution data sets, keeping the low level qualifiers, and changing all the DDDEFs ZONEEDIT can help with this. I would actually suggest that you do both of these things. Install Top Secret (or any other product) in an isolated environment, then clone the target and distribution zone within that environment. IIRC, CA-MSM is now called Opera. I disagree with Lizette, though. I do not recommend that you use it. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
