SMP/E holddata includes an IPL reason so it is easy to look at your own system and see what maintenance requires an IPL. Also much of that has mitigating procedures provided to avoid an IPL. Entirely possible to go a year without IPL and be 100% secure, but more importantly with SMP/E it is easy to know your actual state and decide intelligently. Most other servers make selective fix application very difficult and even impossible, so this is a z/OS point of differentiation over cloud etc.
On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 10:09 AM Clark Morris < [email protected]> wrote: > >On Monday 29/11/2021 at 12:41 pm, Charles Mills wrote: Problem is long > gone, but FWIW this was 9 months after the last IPL. > > Given the need to apply security fixes that probably apply to > SYS1.NUCLEUS or LPA modules, how is it possible to go 9 months without > an IPL and maintain security? > > Clark Morris > > >Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
