Even if you don't call it service, IBM has updated IPO1.PARMLIB.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Mark Zelden [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 12:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Best practice for /etc and /var when upgrading On Tue, 6 Jun 2023 11:26:02 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >So not "the generic IBM-provided versions, without any of our >customizations.". Applying an installation delta to copiesof the IBM /etc and >/var as part of the installation process sounds like best practice to me. Of >course, you also need procedures for service that hits them. > No service ever hits /etc or /var. They are not SMP/E targets. The distributed /etc can be thought of being like IPO1.PARMLIB from serverpac. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://secure-web.cisco.com/1IVjQpGrsyvclxE25aVUzNo1EP2xYInlKKMjl279U4EE6lS7zD9aurxQ54H-TCUhr7u70ND2IPeKWlTghOxYHQcpVwcJxoTsQ7zM7-4-2H-VIM7GvrinTJGxi4l35m2EdOfsCjZFupvWXBvfsIcE88AA_fpr8V3c1gJCMwKznMowdwlyij1NIdQqJ3FEtM7Ir02m7d9fxSEfQB4GbI9k2PALeZo0fsTe1Ah43w1kdpwuq1pmosUrKbFPYhoxnaAfRsJxxvMlkDezBRMRiTYcyCS5e6k9mhIov7tIlds12PkJFVmTx1JsJa57FIT_E7tnptXHn5tvNTtk1Yy79HkoWJyNyWTWKCrV44sNytQoS5UqJR18-DSFY78cB1VSc-LAsJQIixAB9HmT5xkfbgZMkAprgfqRpQY-tLQkA7xiNl2pXm0fgE0h-Nv5k5Snuwk8u/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mzelden.com%2Fmvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
