I think I IPL'd the CPAC system that was built from the ServerPac once
in my career, it was the company/dept's standard and we had a small LPAR
built just for that reason. Documentation was provided, IPLing the CPAC
system was only done to proceed with the ServerPac install.
moving on from that company I moved to a different process, seems
everyone has a better way, for me building the target sysres and zfs
file systems, running some IVP tests and build my new master catalog,
and IPL that system on my sandbox system.
I have a documented process to copy/migrate the new version or maint to
production that works well even for someone who's not a z/os sysprog.
Carmen
On 7/21/2021 1:19 PM, Tom Brennan wrote:
Same with me when I ran ServerPac installs - I never IPL'd using the
datasets provided by the installer such as catalogs, RACF, spool, SMF,
page, etc. I never understood IBM's reason for doing that, and also
never understood the reason for running the system validation jobs on
the vanilla system. What was much more important for us was IPLing
the new res pack on a sandbox system with our own system datasets,
parms, and usermods - and then solve any issues that may come up.
So those IBM-supplied system datasets were never used, and although I
could not delete them using the CPP dialog, I would always set them to
1 track or 1 cylinder before running the alloc job - just to save space.
It just made little sense to me to prove the vanilla system from IBM
works correctly. Of course it does, otherwise why would they send it
to me?
On 7/20/2021 10:23 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:
I don't know how it would work with zOSMF, but I don't worry about
the dataset sizes of my SMPE target datasets. Because I never IPL
using them.
I copy to new SYSRES, FDR and ADRDSSU dataset copies to single
extents. Of course, I rarely (maybe 5 to 5 times in 30 years) put
maintenance into a running system
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