I'd always understood that RESTORE could do this, but it required a lot more work on the part of SMP/E, and the purpose of ACCEPT was to make RESTORE work much faster. Every shop I ever worked at didn't ACCEPT anything (except for those very rare SYSMODs that needed it for sysgen processing) until just before a maintenance cycle and accepted that RESTORE was going to take more work because of it.
On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 1:12 AM Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:45:48 +0000 "Kurt J. Quackenbush" <ku...@us.ibm.com > > > wrote: > > :>> Yeah, this all makes sense. Basically, the idea of APPLY is to build > the LMOD with everything that's been ACCEPTed or previously APPLYed to it. > :>SMP/E has enough information to reconstruct it from scratch if needed, > but will save itself the work of rebuilding the LMOD from the MODs if it > doesn't have to do it. > > :>> You mention that the MODs are applied from PTFs; I assume that APARs > are also reapplied if not SUPd (which they would be required to be if the > PTF you're working with would clobber them). > > :>Yes, FUNCTIONs, PTFs, APARs, USERMODs, whatever SYSMOD last replaced a > MOD (the MOD's RMID) can be used to obtain a usable copy of that MOD from > the SMPPTS. > > :>> Does the same processing apply to RESTORE? Or does it always build > from scratch? > > :>RESTORE does behave the same as APPLY in this respect. > > RESTORE no longer requires that other maintenance to the involved elements > be > ACCEPTed? > > It can rebuild the load modules using APPLYed-only elements? > > -- > Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> > http://www.dissensoftware.com > > Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
