Cross posted to IBM-Main and MVS-OE Yes, I've checked the archives from both lists. The few leads I found there will be contacted off list.
If you don't want to reply to the list, no problem, reply directly to me. ( Lynette dot pope at eds dot com ) We are looking for the best methods for care and feeding of mainframe Unix System Services. It has become a customer-affecting component of z/OS, and must be treated that way. Here's an idea of what I'm looking for. How do YOU.... -Move a site specific change from test to production (update /etc/httpd.conf or /etc/home.map for a single system) -Propagate a change to multiple production systems (add a new zFS to 20 production systems, update automount policies.....) -Track who changed what and when (after ipl, if USS isn't working as it should, the immediate suspects are the most recent changes, who made ANY change to USS? What was changed) What are your back out procedures? (if you know that something is wrong, and it's probably related to the last two changes made, how do you back out those changes? ) Do you have a method of staging updates? (scripts or tools that allow an update to be setup during the week, and to be implemented on the weekend by someone else) Do you have software to do this? Did you 'roll your own'? What are your backup and restore processes for A. USS itself (root, bto, var, .....) B. Applications by directory or by volume, or by HFS/ZFS C. Do you have a separate procedure for /etc filesystem? Disaster recovery processes for USS and applications that run under it? How do you monitor the health of USS? (a problem in USS will soon affect TCPIP, FTP, USS based applications and often DB2 and IMS) I'll be glad to correspond off list. Also, I'm willing to post my findings to the list.... (and if it's as interesting as I think it will be, there will probably be a future SHARE presentation on it.) No answer is too simple or complex. Hopefully we've thought of the easy stuff already, but your process might spark an idea that can help us improve our process. LASTLY,I know this is IBM-Main (and mvs-oe). Sarcasm is expected but it will be ignored. (my delete key works just fine...) Thanks for your assistance. Lynette Pope ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
