Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Best Practices for z/OS Maintenance

2018-02-14 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
"what DFDSS does with respect to DUMPing and COPYing zFS filesystems, quite the nightmare " Hey Tom, In the tiniest chances that you're seeing some zFS not being updated, I would suggest reviewing the DSS dump job to see if all he zFSes you intended to dump got dumped. I learnt only recently t

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Best Practices for z/OS Maintenance

2018-02-08 Thread Craig Pace
I always kept a SERVICE copy of the filesystems that were IBM related and then applied and that is what SMP/E pointed to. Each shop usually has what works best for them, but below are the two main ways that I have done it. 1) Less Work, but Less Control (from SMP/E that is if someone bypasses