I always feel foolish when I reply to my own posts, but here goes. For those of you playing the home game and watching the gladiatorial combat between "Software Management" and the "Grizzled Veteran" here is todays battle.
I think I see where I have not toed the line with the 'new' method of Installing things. I went "old school" and modified my dataset names to prepend a HLQ of CB (I still do not know where that came from - me or z/OSMF). What I did not know is that my worthy opponent (which I will now call the Lion) had secret strategies that it was going to deploy. The Lion took my well crafted and meaningful dataset names and suffixed them with '.#'. The old ServerPac dialogs generated jobs would remove the HLQ on the physical volume and make the names match what was indirectly cataloged in the system being upgraded. For example HLQ.SYS1.LINKLIB cataloged on the newly created SYSRES would be 'zapped' to the name SYS1.LINKLIB which has been indirectly cataloged to ****** for many many years and will NOT be changed. A HLQ.xxx catalog entry would be created so that JCL could be used to select which one you were trying to modify. My review of these new jobs is not showing me where any catalog ALIAS entries are being created (but I could have missed them). This left us with the option of IPLing the old release, then new release for testing, then back to old release to get on with our work. To adopt this new suffixing approach, I now have to lose a week of work in order to rename the data sets in such a way that the suffixing process 'might' work. Then back to my local usermods again for re-APPLY. This sort of thing has been happening to me for years. I make a choice for local needs (like software upgrade vs software replacement in the old ServerPacs) only to find out that two days later the generated jobs will not do what I wanted to do or what I thought they would do. Square One!!! Like an Abbot and Costello routing, THIRD BASE!!!. All convoluted difficulties mean Square One. I just have not taking to drinking the IBM Cool-Aid and will stray into the world of independent thought. What I would love to do is 'Copy' my current Deployment as a baseline from which to start over. I cannot find a 'Copy Deployment' under z/OSMF --- Only 'Add'. Welcome to the next battle trying to tame this Lion. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
