On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:29:05 -0600, Alan Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >So I'm asking the group "when you're applying preventative maintenance do >you read and analyze the cover information for every ptf being applied?" >We've always looked at the hold info for all ptf's needing a bypass >although I admit that DOC holds were not included until a year or so ago. >Have we simply been lucky? > Absolutely not. If I had that much free time (or anyone else in the group), we wouldn't be needed to begin with. I think it's debatable whether you need to read all ++DOC holds or not. I personally always have because I usually learn something (a new command or operand to an existing command, new parmlib option, etc.). But by definition, doc holds should be just that - doc. The problem is, sometimes holds that should really be ++ACTION come in under ++DOC. It is up to the person / group that packages the PTF to do it correctly or if it is a gray area they should err on the side of caution and package it with a ++ACTION hold. IBM has been trying to make the amount of holddata you need to go through in order to apply maintenance, less not more. For example, changing ++ACTION holds to ++IPL so you can ignore those when applying to a maintenance sysres that you know will be rolled out with an IPL. So I don't think IBM expects you to read though every PTF cover letter when applying maintenance. My 2 cents. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
