I find it easiest just to do the service and put2prod on the production systems. Others have ways of moving all the parts around... but it could be a big inconvenience if you had to put an emergency PTF on quickly.
We run service ahead of time and right before the IPL, run the put2prod. We compare the logs left on maint's 191 by the service command to make sure the same things happen there as they did on the 2nd level test. Marcy -------------------------------------------------------- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of George Henke/NYLIC Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 12:13 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: [IBMVM] Migrating Maintenance to Level 1 Minimum I need to move maintenance from Level 2 to Level 1: Level 1 is 540RES, 540W01, 540W02, 540SPL, 540SP2, 540PAG, 540PG2 Level 2 is 54XRES, 54XW01, 54XW02 54XSPL, 54XSP2, 54XPAG, 54XPG2 What is the least disruptive way to do this when: * there is no tape, * no additional volumes are available, and * I need a fallback. I do not believe I can simply IPL with the new CPLOAD, because I have the SDFs in the SPOOL which I believe SES rebuilt when I applied the maintenance. I could DDR the SPOOLs but then I would step on the Level 1 SDFs. I suppose I could just point to the Level 2 RES, 54XRES and IPL at Level 1 instead of 540RES. Would there be any changes needed if I did?
