I agree. We use a permanent maintenance LPAR which is generally not up.
With ServerPac, it didn't matter we could select it as the target from our
driving system. With z/OSMF, if run on the driving system, z/OSMF wanted
the target up and wanted to communicate with it via z/OSMF. Not good
for us.
Further, PSWI uses DSS to restore the datasets and ignores any
DATACLAS parameters. Our OMVS datasets are all EXTADDR so we had to
build a REXX EXEC to copy the OMVS datasets to a newly allocated OMVS dataset
with the
EXTADDR attribute. Which by the way, what happens when the ROOT grows
beyond 4GB?
There were a number of other things we ran into which escape me at the
moment.
On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 10:15 AM Shaffer, Terri <
0000017d5f778222-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Randy,
I completely agree, This will be my 40th year working on z/OS and
at least another 7 years to go.
I find z/OSMF cumbersome. I prefer to do things close to the source.
Not
a tool to add layers of complexity and places to go wrong with yet
more strange messages.
I installed z/OS 2.5 before they eliminated SERVERPAC. I then
ordered it again to try it thru z/OSMF, it added a lot more time,
the SSA's, my SMS ACS routines and how things got built added to the
complexity. Plus
there
are many times I would bypass steps in serverpac, that because
z/OSMF is performing what they call checks, think idiot proofing,
makes this even more difficult.
More to come, but if I find work arounds, I will bypass in the
future
what
I can in z/OSMF software installs.
Ms Terri E Shaffer
Senior Systems Engineer,
z/OS Support:
ACIWorldwide - Telecommuter
H(412-766-2697) C(412-519-2592)
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I'm sure my complaints don't do any good, but I've been doing this
for 25 years (I know many of you a lot longer).
I don't understand why IBM wants to force everyone to use z/OSMF.
Maybe it's an attempt to attract a younger group of System Programmers.
That's fine. However, I am not a GUI fan. I like the green screen.
Serverpac works great. I am running into issues trying to learn z/OSMF.
It's a waste of my time when I already know how to use Serverpac.
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Running zOSMF under z/OS 2.4. In attempting to load the Portable
Software Instance, retrieving the contents from the directory, that
was used when the order was retrieved to our system, I get the following error.
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I have no idea how to proceed. If I need to apply maintenance to
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