If one was looking for the, 'official', 'approved' technique for changing (say) SYSTEM CONFIG (or some other file on MAINT CF1) or even SYSTEM NETI D S2, where would one look?
Please note, I'm not asking for suggestions on safe ways to do this - I c an generate no end of those for myself (as my bullet-ridden feet can testify ) - but I have been searching the various Planning, Installation, Maintenance and SES manuals for some hours now with (so far) very little success in finding coherent and unambiguous statements on how, 'IBM' would prefer we went about safely updating these files. So, does anyone know - is this stuff actually formally documented anywher e? For example, is there an official, approved, step-by-step guide to updati ng SYSTEM NETID that takes an innocent young VM sysprog through ALL the hoop s involved and won't leave any nasty surprises lurking in the system that w ill bite when future maintenance is applied? (One somehow feels that SES real ly should be involved in updates to SYSTEM NETID but I can't find any such reference - I tried experimenting with Replacement Parts but SES didn't really want to play - the best I could come up with was to use VMFCOPY rather than plain old COPYFILE.) I ask because I'm likely to soon be in the position of discussing z/VM maintenance and cuatomization with the aforementioned young innocents and , before I show them, 'my' safe ways of doing things (refer back to previou s mention of scarred feet) I feel it incumbent on me to seek out any, 'official' safe ways that are perhaps likely to be enshrined in any futur e enhancements to the formal maintenance and customization processes. I guess that I'm really hoping for a, 'Well done for asking' from Chuckie (no doubt along with BUT IF YOU'D READ THE XXX MANUAL YOU WOULDN'T HAVE H AD TO ASK, DUMMY!!! - after all, it's Chuckie we're talking about here) but in his (possible) absence is there anyone else who's either found definitive documentation of this kind or alternatively can state definitively that i t's not yet been written? With many thanks in anticipation Jeff
