As I understand your scenario, you have two z/OS systems, a driving system (call it A) where the z/OSMF server is running and a target system (call it B), and you want to install z/OS 2.5 into the existing master catalog for system B. Currently you have selected A as the target system for the deployment. Unfortunately Software Management does not have support for installing into an existing alternate master catalog. Yes it can install into the driving system's master catalog, or create and install into a brand new master catalog, but it does not install into an existing master catalog that is not the driving system's active master catalog. As a circumvention, is B IPL’d? Is a z/OSMF server running on B? If so, then define system B in the z/OSMF Systems task and select it as the target system for the deployment instead of selecting A.
Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, z/OS SMP/E and z/OSMF Software Management Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies PTFs. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Michael Babcock Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 3:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF PSWI Okay, more issues. As I stated, we use a permanent maintenance volume/system. With ServerPac, we could define an SSA and have the SYSRES datasets cataloged in our maintenance systems master cat then ServerPac would allocate the dataset using an SSA. later it would generate jobs to remove the SSA. Unless I’m missing something, this doesn’t seem possible with z/OSMF because the Modify Catalog section doesn’t let us change the master cat (even though it says it will). The only way I see around that is to rename the SYSRES dataset with the SSA. Of course we would then need to create our own rename job to remove the SSA. Jeez, COME ON PEOPLE! We were told z/OSMF would provide the same functionality as ServerPac but I guess not. On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 3:28 PM Michael Babcock <[email protected]> wrote: > We are installing z/OS 2.5 via z/OSMF and are using the Modify > Deployment screens. We can easily change the volumes, HLQs, etc, but > wanted to modify the Primary and/or secondary allocation and don’t see a way > to do that. > > We have a case opened with IBM and have been told there is no way to do > that and no plans for it in the future. What? We could do that with > the ServerPac, why not with z/OSMF? I was under the impression that > z/OSMF would provide most functions that ServerPac provided. > > So, is that capability not going to be provided? > > > -- > Michael Babcock > OneMain Financial > z/OS Systems Programmer, Lead > -- Michael Babcock OneMain Financial z/OS Systems Programmer, Lead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
