Anne,
That's exactly the approach that I use. Another variation would be to
try it on a z/VM in another LPAR, but second level works just as well.
Perhaps the key to PUT2PROD is to make sure that you are connected to
your OSA ICC or 2074 (if you have either of those). Also, the timing to
be able to bounce VM to finish the maintenance cycle is important.
Anne D. Crabtree wrote:
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!
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