On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 9:47 AM, John Eells <ee...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> John McKown wrote: > <snip> > > What we have today for the Customized Offerings Driver in DVD format is: > > - An IPLable copy of standalone DFSMSdss on a DVD > - Dump files for the z/OS COD system on DVDs > - The capability with the COD z/OS system to download a ServerPac (or > CBPDO if you're nuts) for a z/OS system and install it. > > Not quite what you were imagining but at a macro level this is the same as > "get a basic z/OS going," and "use SMP/E to download your" ServerPac or > CBPDO, install it, and customized it for IPL. This has all been there > since z/OS V1.13 GA, if I recall correctly. Ah. We are stuck on z/OS 1.12 and dying a slow death. Actually, we were supposed to die last December. Now people are saying "maybe in 2017 sometime". '90% of <something> takes 90% of the time; the 10% left takes the other 90%" also, isn't that an "extra cost" item? Hum, not to be overly tacky, but that might explain why this ability is not "general use" for disaster recovery. Of course, in D.R. mode, there is a 99.9999999% chance that the D.R. provider has a base z/OS to restore from. Usually running under z/VM. > > -- > John Eells > IBM Poughkeepsie > ee...@us.ibm.com > > -- The unfacts, did we have them, are too imprecisely few to warrant our certitude. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
