So, I was hoping to ask all the people on the list if they would be willing to share their strategy regarding applying maintenance to VM!
It was obviously not a topic that could be covered at SHARE since everyone has their own way of doing it... As I indicated at SHARE, for those of you who attended the wrap-up session, my inclination is to: - create a second level VM, - apply maintenance, - see if it works, - if it does, do it all again on first level. We are a VERY small shop with only a handful of linux instances. We only have z/vm in order to run linux. Can I put maintenance on with those instances up? Seems like that would not be a good idea (comes to mind the time I did PUT2PROD from my desk, TCP/IP got taken down, and I got zapped!). However, as Jim indicated, z/vm 5.3 handles tcp/ip differently so ??? I would really appreciate any insight that anyone can provide... Thanks!
