I had thought the same about the IMS guy who had left years ago. Needing to put in a PTF on IMS for an upcoming OS upgrade, I was mildly surprised to find this:
"Use SMP/E to apply and accept IMS™ maintenance before an IMS system definition. All IMS system definitions use the IMS SMP/E *distribution libraries* and the IMS stage 1 macros as input. As a result, an IMS system definition might reverse the changes from any SMP/E maintenance (SYSMODs - PTFs, APARs, or USERMODs) that was processed using the SMP/E APPLY command, but not processed using the SMP/E ACCEPT command. This depends on the type of IMS system definition, and the impact of the SYSMOD." http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dzichelp/v2r2/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.ims11.doc.sdg/ims_smp_maintenance.htm ACCEPT processing appears to be the expected process when dealing with IMS. On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...We were an essentially small shop and we knew how to > backout each others fixes. I won't comment on CICS as the person who did it > was > in another solar system... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
