Hi Carmen, Sorry to hear that z/OS V2.4 will be your least release! Good luck in retirement!
Once you have laid down a z/OSMF ServerPac, it will have the same considerations as if you had done it with the ISPF ServerPac dialogs, so I'm guessing the comments weren't about z/OSMF specifically? Q: ...still have yet to find how to update / get RSU maint and define or change anything once the instance is defined but I've not really spent too much time either... A: You'd acquire PTFs just as you did when you installed z/OS V2.4. If it were me, I'd set up an automated job to pull PTFs and HOLDDATA nightly/weekly with SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER, specifying my new z/OS V2.5 global zone. The SMP/E CSI is there, just as always, for you to install PTFs and run reports...just like before. Of course, now that it is also known to z/OSMF, you could do an APPLY with z/OSMF Software Update should you wish. Once the Software Instance is known to z/OSMF, it knows the global and target zones, and can guide you through an APPLY of corrective, recommended, or functional PTFs. Or, you can use the same SMP/E JCL batch jobs you've used for decades. Your choice, and it doesn't matter. PTFs are APPLY into the CSI and both ways uses the CSI. Q: I wonder since my company does not allow access from my mainframe systems to the internet, what protocol will be used to query my CSI's, maint level? get service A: Same methods as before. Nothing has changed. You can acquire a ServerPac via internet or DVD. If you can't use RECEIVE ORDEER to acquire PTFs, you can use Shopz and upload your CSI (or other ways). -Marna WALLE z/OS System Install and Upgrade IBM Poughkeepsie ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
