We use the same physical file systems from release to release and only update individual files/directories when necessary.
Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, June 5th, 2023 at 2:00 PM, Pew, Curtis G <curtis....@austin.utexas.edu> wrote: > How do people handle /SYSTEM/etc and /SYSTEM/var when upgrading z/OS? In the > past we’ve had these filesystems on an auxiliary volume, so that they > remained the same during any upgrades unless we deliberately changed > something. For our last upgrade (this past weekend) our management outsourced > the upgrade to a 3rd party service provider, and the sysprog doing it > configured completely new filesystems for these that were the generic > IBM-provided versions, without any of our customizations. He claims this is a > best practice. What say ye? > > > -- > Curtis Pew > ITS Campus Solutions > curtis....@austin.utexas.edu > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
