On Feb 8, 2008 11:00 PM, Tobias Doerkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think maintaining a sysres like richard does, is quite a good idea. just > to tell you why i asked this question: i need a procedure to maintain up 20 > z/VMs images. moreover there is no shared dasd environment. so i have to > deliver the new maintenance via file transfer and perform the necessary > changes to make it ready for ipl automatically, because manual change for 20 > images are no fun ...
I believe most of the z/VM maintenance can be done in SFS. Or otherwise you could copy the contents of the production disks (including the parm disks) into (versioned) SFS directories. You then make the SFS file pool available on all other systems (via ISFC or via IPGATE) so that you only need the few last steps to be repeated on each system. You could run MAINT disconnected on the other systems, accepting commands from MAINT on your maintenance system (again, via TCP/IP or ISFC). Rob PS Obviously some of your requirements could be challenged as well (e.g. why 20 similar z/VM images, why no shared DASD, etc). Relaxing on those gives some more attractive options. -- Rob van der Heij Velocity Software, Inc http://velocitysoftware.com/
