I have never understood the fixation with rock bottom return codes. SMP/E maintenance is so much simpler without agonizing over every uneven cobblestone along the path.
1. RECEIVE HOLDDATA the same day you begin installing. If you're not sure how fresh your HOLDDATA is, pull it again. The cost is trivial. 2. APPLY CHECK (as others have said) excluding nothing but HOLDSYS. 3, Study the CAUSER report. If you see only messages about unresolved HOLD errors, you are good to go. Don't waste time building EXCLUDE lists. SMP/E will exclude error sysmods without your having to lift a finger. By design. 4. Resubmit the job with the word CHECK commented out. P.S. do not edit the source JCL; use SDSF SJ (or other product equivalent) so that the next submit from your CNTL library will retain CHECK. 5. Expect RC 8. (Anything less is miraculous. A miracle won't get you a raise or a hot date.) 6. Study the CAUSER report again. If all you see are unresolved HOLD errors, you're done. Move on. 7. If you see space or directory errors, you MUST fix them now. Use PDS command (or StarTool if you have it) to fix these errors. Modify secondary extents and/or directory blocks as needed. Then return to Step 4. If you are deeply disturbed by RC 8, either take a (physician prescribed) pill, or spend some of your vast spare time researching each error sysmod. If you determine that your shop desperately needs a particular PTF in error, then open an SR to see if IBM will give you an APAR testfix. This is itself the start of a whole new adventure that you may come to rue down the road. Reconsider the pill option. It's your choice. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: "Gibney, Dave" <gib...@wsu.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 09/06/2012 06:40 PM Subject: Re: SMP/E question Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> I exclude the specific PTFs with unresolved holderror and apply the rest. It is usually only a dozen or so. I really recommend order from server to insure you have all maint and all holddata. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 3:56 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: SMP/E question > > Hi, > I received the HOLDDATA from IBM. > For example the first problem on the list is with PTF UA60617. I checked > online, and it says that this PTF is from October 4th, 2011, and is still in error. > Is there a way to find out if there is a fix for the fix? > > I will change my bypass statement. > > Gadi <huge snippage> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
