Hi Kurt, >Does z/OSMF have a different look and feel than CustomPac ServerPac? Yes. > However, z/OSMF can certainly install as you've described here: you can >specify your three installation volumes for the target and distribution >libraries, you can let SMS manage the CPAC and SMP/E data sets, your >targets and dlibs can be uncataloged, the zFSs can be cataloged with HLQ >INST25. And you don't have to IPL the installed system. > >If anyone is confused how to tell z/OSMF about your unique installation >desires, let me know. I bet in most cases, like those described above, >there's a way to make it happen. I'm here to help.
Thanks for your offer to help! Not having seen the zOSMF method, I still think that the actual process of installing is or should be similar. I know serverpac full system replacement needs a usercat (that would become the master cat if you wanted to replace that and IPL the new system) for allocating and restoring the 'collisions' (all allocated data sets in lnklst and the logon proc). Both zOSMF and serverpac go and set the SSA into that usercat, I think. What I don't understand is why my 2.5 serverpac wants to cement the SSA in the DDDefs. I deleted all of that before running the UPDDDD job. But then with serverpac, I get to see the jobs before submitting them. zOSMF might do it the same way and I think that is where Terri has the problem with the aliases she keeps mentioning. And I didn't understand why the SSA should get cemented in the dddefs, anyway. What I found really annoying in my serverpac was that I was asked for the jobclass for sysout data sets, dutifully specified an asterisk (take the one from the jobcard) and then got generated statements like this: SYSPRINT DD *. It took me a while to understand why I had gotten either abend001 or abend04c and had no sysprint to look for the reason. Best regards, Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
