I ran into a rather unusual problem yesterday. My SMP/E is lying to me. I did a REPORT CROSSZONES to determine what maintenance is on my test z/OS 1.4 system versus my production z/OS 1.4 system. I know that they are at different maintenance levels because some of the ISMF panels are different and some of the modules are different sizes.
The only thing that I can think of that could have happened is a failure in a maintenance process (mine, not SMP/E's). What I do is "clone" my running system to a new set of volumes (disk copy using DFDSS). I then clip the new volumes to new volsers. I then update the SMP/E DDDEFs for the production zone to point to these volumes. I apply maintenance. When ready to test, I clip the new volumes back to the original volsers and carefully IPL (due to duplicate volsers). Once up on the new volumes, I clip the old production volumes to new names and back them up to tape. Somewhere along the line, I must have royally messed this up. I have no idea how, but I'll take the bullet for it. Now, given a running system and an SMP/E zone which purports to describe that system, is there any way to verify that the libraries and SMP/E are properly synchronized? I'm thinking that there likely is not. FWIW - what I did was really cheat. My test z/OS 1.4 system had all the maintenance on it that I needed. So I simply created a "clone" of production by using the test image libraries. Thanks for any ideas. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
