I'm almost completely the opposite, I use it as an opportunity to replace the datasets and make corrections to their allocations. Although in my case I am normally coming in after someone messed up or 5 to 10 years (or more) after the previous upgrade so the sizes and allocations in many cases no longer work the same.
Brian On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 11:19:09 -0700, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote: >Same with me when I ran ServerPac installs - I never IPL'd using the >datasets provided by the installer such as catalogs, RACF, spool, SMF, >page, etc. I never understood IBM's reason for doing that, and also >never understood the reason for running the system validation jobs on >the vanilla system. What was much more important for us was IPLing the >new res pack on a sandbox system with our own system datasets, parms, >and usermods - and then solve any issues that may come up. > >So those IBM-supplied system datasets were never used, and although I >could not delete them using the CPP dialog, I would always set them to 1 >track or 1 cylinder before running the alloc job - just to save space. > >It just made little sense to me to prove the vanilla system from IBM >works correctly. Of course it does, otherwise why would they send it to me? > >On 7/20/2021 10:23 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: >> I don't know how it would work with zOSMF, but I don't worry about the >> dataset sizes of my SMPE target datasets. Because I never IPL using them. >> I copy to new SYSRES, FDR and ADRDSSU dataset copies to single extents. Of >> course, I rarely (maybe 5 to 5 times in 30 years) put maintenance into a >> running system > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
