On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 03:40:03 -0500, Bill Giannelli <billgianne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Mark, >thanks for your response. >One of the things of my posts that might be confusing, is that I am >specifically working with DB2 installations and it's tools. I do not work on >or change the z/OS system it's self. I am a Db2 Systems Programmer/ DBA. I >would never touch things like SYS1.LINKLIB. >thanks >Bill Well, that's a horse of a different color! ;) I don't know why you would need to clone for something like that, but you may have a good reason. If it were me, I would just backup the entire SMP/E environment including target / dlibs to tape with some date reference and if I needed to restore later for some reason I would restore to a different name. If you are just cloning to "split off" the current environment to support something else (as opposed to backup / recovery), then it is basically just DFDSS copy or FDRCOPY of all the zones, SMP/E datasets, target and dlib datasets to the name of your choosing and updating DDDEFs. DDDEFs can be mass updated with ZONEEDIT DDDEF. If different HLQs are used today, you can continue to do that or not... I don't know your shop standards, but I personally prefer to have the entire SMP/E environment for a product under a single HLQ / naming convention. hlq.DB2V12.llq., or hlq1.hlq2.DB2V12.llq etc. That includes the CSI(s), SMP* datasets, target and dlib datasets. Then you can back it all up and restore it together. When a version or product is obsolete it is simple to delete the entire thing regardless of how it is spread out on dasd (SMS vs. non-sms control). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
