Whether ACTION or DOC, these instructions need to be qualified many times over. IBM occasionally PEs a PTF over some problem with HOLD data--usually when it's missing. There may be nothing wrong with the code, just the packaging and accompanying--or not--documentation.
I'm obviously perturbed in this case because we're trying to simply the platform for a new generation. In particular, that's one of the main goals of z/OSMF, for which this sysmod was created. Like tossing a grenade to a kid with the directive to pull the pin or not--as you choose. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2017 1:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Mischaracterized HOLDDATA On Thu, 18 May 2017 14:14:10 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Can IBM repair this even after the fact? I know SMPHOLD may contain >++HOLD ... ACTION. But I doubt that LIST ERRSYSMODS will show it, Do you mean LIST HOLDERROR? or perhaps REPORT ERRSYSMODS? Either way, it will not. Doc and Action holds are System holds, not Error Holds. You could use LIST HOLDSYSTEM. >so it does little to alert the programmer who relies on ERRSYSMODS >after APPLY and before deployment. Relying on ERROR holds to know about SYSTEM holds would be a foolish thing to do. Especially if you mean an ERRSYSMODS Report. That only reports on unresolved error holds. > >I could envision a ++HOLD ... ERROR resolved by a trivial PTF with >the corrected ++HOLD ... ACTION. Ugh. Sure, the PTF with an incorrect SYSTEM hold could have an ERROR hold and a resolving PTF with an updated SYSTEM hold. That could be an appropriate thing to do. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
