First, I consider many things. That doesn't mean I will ultimately decide to do them. If I consider further, I will of course start with RESTORE CHECK and evaluate the complexity, etc. Second, I ran ACCEPT for everything that would accept clean before I started this path. Applied all that was RSU* IBM*, or HIPER and not in error as a separate run before I did the bypass. So, I do a. Have back-ups of the state after ACCEPT and before APPLY(s) and b. It's a total of less that 100 PTFs total in the full difference between RSU1903 (prior and ACCEPTED state) and RSU1908 +error, now running in my sandboxes.
But, before I do anything in the way of backing out or going forward I will look further into the likelihood of this actually adversely effecting my systems. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 12:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Considering Bypassing ERROR HOLD for OA58037 > > On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:00:04 +0000, Jousma, David > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I suspect you won't have much luck backing these PTF's off because they > reach out and touch a lot of different modules. The only real option would > be if you have a known complete backup of the entire SMPE environment > *before* the application of any of these PTF's. > > Another reason to always clone target zones before applying maintenance. > > Here is another possible way to restore the PTFs that I have considered, but > haven't yet had a need to try. > > 1. Clone your distribution zone and relate the cloned zone to your target > zone. > 2. Accept everything that is keeping you from restoring the PTFs in your > cloned zone. > 3. Restore the PTFs. > 4. Relate the target zone back to the original distribution zone. > > Actually, if I was doing it, I would clone both the target and distribution > zones. > > -- > Tom Marchant > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
