Re: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-05 Thread Dejan Stamatovic
@Tom Marchant Cloning is even better as it enables ease of rollback. Dejan Stamatovic CROZ D.O.O. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-04 Thread Tom Marchant
One way of effectively providing a backup is to clone the target zone before applying maintenance. Then apply to the clone. -- Tom Marchant On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 09:16:58 -0600, Dejan Stamatovic wrote: >I agree totally. Only backups provide a sure way out of problems during >applying

Re: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-04 Thread Dejan Stamatovic
@ Michael Babcock  I agree totally. Only backups provide a sure way out of problems during applying maintenance.  All other methods mentioned here, might or might not work.  So just to make a point here:   Make sure you have a consistent backup of all affected data sets before applying

Re: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-04 Thread Rob Schramm
Kurt, as always, many thanks. Rob On Wed, Jan 4, 2023, 08:30 Kurt J. Quackenbush wrote: > Yes, the GENERATE command will generate jobs to construct target libraries > from the content in the distribution libraries. However, APPLY REDO later > for more than a handful of PTFs might be dicey.

Re: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-04 Thread Michael Babcock
ay, January 3, 2023 2:07 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible? > > So I know all the information is in SMPE. I'm looking for if there's an > easy way to do this.. The target library got smashed actually It's a ZFS > file and none of the bac

Re: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-04 Thread Kurt J. Quackenbush
Yes, the GENERATE command will generate jobs to construct target libraries from the content in the distribution libraries. However, APPLY REDO later for more than a handful of PTFs might be dicey. If you go this route I suggest you first ACCEPT the PTFs that have not been accepted yet, then

Re: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-04 Thread Steve Smith
Look at the GENERATE command. It should do what you want, but I haven't tried it. sas On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 4:07 PM Rob Schramm wrote: > So I know all the information is in SMPE. I'm looking for if there's an > easy way to do this.. The target library got smashed actually It's a ZFS > file

Re: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-04 Thread Itschak Mugzach
you might see if they can > help. > > Some of the ZONE* commands may work. But I am not sure. > > > Lizette > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Rob Schramm > Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 2:07 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LIST

Re: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2023 2:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible? So I know all the information is in SMPE. I'm looking for if there's an easy way to do this.. The target library got smashed actually It's a ZFS file and none of the backups

Re: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-03 Thread Attila Fogarasi
BUILDMCS. takes 5 seconds to type in the command, many hours to execute :) Re-install of the product might be the best alternative. On Wed, Jan 4, 2023 at 8:07 AM Rob Schramm wrote: > So I know all the information is in SMPE. I'm looking for if there's an > easy way to do this.. The target

SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-03 Thread Rob Schramm
So I know all the information is in SMPE. I'm looking for if there's an easy way to do this.. The target library got smashed actually It's a ZFS file and none of the backups are available, but the distribution libraries are all intact.. I'm looking for an easy way to repopulate from the