I, too, have suffered the same sort of troubles as Barbara, moving from v1.13 to v2.1 over four releases of the ADCD system image.
Not wishing to steal any thunder from Barbara, the latest release (July 2014, v2.1), introduced the idea of a 'user' disk, volser S1CFG1, which is the residence disk for all the 'USER.xxx' libraries (These libraries are intended to hold user site modifications). This will make things slightly easier (but only slightly) when upgrading in the future. At the next upgrade, the S1CFG1 disk can be made part of the new configuration, for the time it takes to complete the job. During that time, the contents of libraries on S1CFG1 can be used as a source for equivalent libraries on the 'new' xxCFG1 disk. Regards John Compton Technical Support Engineer World Programming Limited john.comp...@teamwpc.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: 08 August 2014 16:05 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Rational Development and Test (RD&T) aka z/OS on a PC Thanks for the detailed answer and ADCD review Barbara. Sounds like you should hire yourself out to the IBM ADCD packagers to teach them how to put that system together the professional way. :) Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Barbara Nitz Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 9:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Rational Development and Test (RD&T) aka z/OS on a PC > Does the RD&T license allow you to get updated ADCD images when they become > available? E.G., when an ADCD version is made available for z/OS 2.1, can > you load it on your RD&T system? Yes, you can. Having gone through that two times (migration 1.10 -> 1.13 and then moving 'the system' from running under VM at z/OS 1.13 to the RDT hardware), it's a pain: You essentially loose everything that you have customized in your previous system. Especially, if you're not sysprog enough to know that one never ever customizes anything in an SMPE maintained library. (Ask me how I know, especially the first time around). You come up with a new master catalog and a new RACF data base when you come up with a new ADCD system. There is no SMS environment to speak of on an ADCD system (just enough to get a logstream up for DB2). There is no HSM at all. If you have set up TCPIP any differently, you loose that as well. When I took over, I started out cleaning up catalogs - put everything not-system into a user catalog. Then I cleaned out RACF and essentially redefined everything from the ground up, deleting quite a bit and adding even more to have full coverage. And making sure that a group concept is followed. Did I mention that on an ADCD system none of the SMPE maintained libraries have data set profiles? I am almost at the point now where I can turn on PROTECTALL. I have also established an SMS environment (probably not a very good one, but it works) and set up HSM to at least migrate to level1 (there are no tapes configured on an ADCD system, although you could probably set some up) and to clean out all the temporary data sets. I have completely restructured JES2, after barely avoiding JES cold starts when (the minimal) spool ran full, so now we have a much larger spool on different volumes. Which required me to enlarge the checkpoint data sets substantially (we had run out of JOES at about 1300 jobs held and running in the system). I had started Health Checker on that ADCD system. It showed a lot of RC=12 exceptions. > Can't the ADCD system be adjusted to use larger than MOD3 disks, just as one > would do in a real system? I do realize that's a lot of work requiring a lot > of system programmer-level changes, but I would think well worth the effort. I hope to have that work finished tomorrow, incidentally. I have recopied everything to mod9, cleaned up a very messy SMPE environment (I deleted about 800 target entries and 600 DLIB entries that haven't been in use for god knows how long, corrected quite a few references, added missing ones and so on...) Tomorrow I plan on IPLing from data sets at exactly the same software level, but copied from the new target libraries (did I mention that the SMPE that comes with ADCD would install into the live data sets?). If all goes well, then I'll also come up with a new master catalog that has the system indirectly catalogued so it will be a lot easier to IPL new maintenance or a new operating system. (Thanks to Mark Zelden for his onepack system - it helped a lot to see the actual steps needed to come up with a new master cat, especially when dealing with VSAM ZFSs.) All products that come with z/OS will then be in the master cat and not spread out haphazardly over some products catalog and the master cat. Barbara -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. 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