I think you've conflated PTF maintenance with version or release maintenance. VM has "test" minidisks built in to it to test and promote new PTF levels. Release or version maintenance is done by creating new system volumes and then migrating your user directory, etc, to the new system volumes when you're satisfied with your testing. Since you've already built new volumes, I would go with migrating the rest of my system to the new volumes.
________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of George Henke/NYLIC Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:13 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: 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?
