Neither service or put2prod are disruptive to the guests. It's the shutdown that will be :)
Marcy "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karl Kingston Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 9:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IBMVM] Question on SERVICE EXEC and PUT2PROD We're about to apply some RSU's to our current 5.3 system. System has been running great without issues. Right now, I'd like to minimize the downtime for our users. Since we're running z/Linux with production servers. Is running SERVICE EXEC distruptive to the running system? I would think PUT2PROD would be. Can I run SERVICE to apply the service and then at a later time when we schedule an outage, I can run PUT2PROD and SHUTDOWN/re-IPL? Thanks
