On Friday, 08/21/2009 at 12:58 EDT, Jim Bohnsack <jab...@cornell.edu> wrote: > I am trying to put on the latest RSU for VM, 0902, and was using > SERVICE. It complained that there is a PTF for a modified part of RACF > that needs to be installed and stopped, leaving a SERVICE RESTART file. > The PTF is VM64247 against HCPRPI.
You mean VM64627. > I am butting my head against a wall, trying to figure out the correct > procedure from the RACF Program Directory to get that assembled and > installed up to the point I can do a SERVICE RESTART. I've tried > following, from the RACF Program Directory, 6.10.8, Performing a Local > Modification to HCPxxx and at task 6.11, Install the CP Part of RACF, > which is service racf enable, I get: > > VMFSRV1216E A restart record was found in table SERVICE $RESTART. > The interrupted service installation must be > completed by issuing the SERVICE command with the > RESTART operand. > > I've tried about every other combination in the RACF Prog. Dir. to > install a modification and always seem to get the same kind of > message. I suspect that I have made an error in labeling the HCPRPI > update file on the 5VMRAC40 2C2 disk. I probably, by now have the > VVTLCL completely messed up. > > Could someone who has worked thru this tell me what they did. A reply > off-list would be fine if you have a lengthy answer. Please contact the Support Center and talk to the VMSES/E support folks. SERVICE RACF ENABLE is issued only once and never again. By the way, the parts of the RACF Program Directory that deal with application of service are superceded by the z/VM Guide to Automated Installation and Service. The LOCALMOD command helps simplify identification and management of local mods. (Which RACF is, with respect to CP.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
