While Ed and I differ on the need for CHECK and on the practice of injecting maintenance directly into the body of a running system, we agree on the pointlessness of chasing down sysmod error chains. SMP/E is designed--at some considerable cost in blood, sweat, and tears--*not* to install any sysmod whose pre- or co-req fails for any reason. All manual labor to Sherlock the labyrinth of sysmod interdependence accomplishes the same result as SMP/E does with no effort on your part. This is not about weighing various outcomes. The outcome will be *the same* whether you code up iteratively more complex EXCLUDE lists or just let SMP/E do the job you're paying it to do. Look at the CAUSER report to learn which sysmods were patient zero in each error chain. Investigate these few if you wish to satisfy yourself that no GA PTF actually exists. Then you're done.
A clarification on the practice of 'cloning' environments. As long as you have the modest luxury of keeping a couple of sysres sets around--way cheaper than it used to be in the days of SLED--you can maintain one full set of Target volumes where all maintenance is installed. You clone that set to produce an IPL set. Future maintenance goes against the same Target set, which is updated *only* by SMP/E. The Target set lives on until the next ServerPac creates a new one. Ad infinitum. . . 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: Jeremy Nicoll - ls mainframes <jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 10/07/2012 08:53 AM Subject: Re: SMP/E question Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Edward Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote: > As a part-time sysprog, I abbreviate your approach even more. I have no > time for pesky 'CHECK' operations. Do you chase down the prereq/coreq chains by hand then? -- Jeremy C B Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
