Being able to install maintenance separately can be very important depending on your shop's organization and the distribution of duties among (even a small number of) folks. I see two classes of components:
1) Those closely akin to z/OS that install on and migrate with sysres. 2) Those not in category 1, including products managed by other people on their own timetable. I believe that it's best for category 2 products to be installed in one or more zones outside of the common z/OS zone and even ordered separately. For example, we tried a while back ordering Omegastuff in the common ServerPac. But some Omegamon products here needed to be managed in concert with new CICS or DB2 releases irrespective of z/OS level. Combining did not work and caused problems for other folks. Once components begin cohabitating in a single zone, handling them by different rules is complicated, time-consuming, and error prone. Omegamon is especially unruly because of the manual (non-SMPE) work needed for migration. We went back to ordering and managing Omegamon separately. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 8:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):SMPE apply excluding certain FMID's? I've done that, and it works. I guess I should have been more clear to Kurt's question. I actually would like to maintenance Omegamon's separately than the rest of the Operating system. The issue is being able to apply general maintenance to all other FMID's with the exception of OMEGAMON at my choosing. It's not a huge issue, more of general convenience for the folks that will have to review Omegamon hold data. _________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Engineering david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: Robert A. Rosenberg [mailto:hal9...@panix.com] Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 8:55 PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Cc: Jousma, David Subject: Re: SMPE apply excluding certain FMID's? At 14:35 +0000 on 11/19/2015, Jousma, David wrote about Re: SMPE apply excluding certain FMID's?: >Do you really want/need to segregate applying maintenance for the >Omegamon suite, or during a maintenance cycle do you simply want to >more easily identify the relevant HOLDs just for >Omegamon? I don't >necessarily have in mind a solution for you, but I'm curious what your >real goal is. > >The latter. An APPLY CHECK listing your created Omagamon FMIDSET (or the FMIDs) will give you this info since only Omegamon SYSMODs will be selected. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
