On 12/15/2024 12:29 PM, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
It is not a matter or RESTORE, but matter of way of restore.
SMP/E RESTORE does not work in some cases, it is documented.
One of solutions would be to clone/backup set of SMP/E volumes - I
mean SMPE CSI, DLIB, TGT, etc.
You may think about it as GDG. Of course whole SMP/E volume just to
restore small PTF seems overkill, but you can still use both.
And of course there is no reason to never accept. Except lazyness.
Of course, we make pre-APPLY backups of the CSIs and target/DLIB data
sets in the event something absolutely horrible happens.
In my experience, 99% of the time a problem discovered after a service
apply can be fixed by backing out a single PTF and, far more often than
not, this can be performed in a non-disruptive manner by running SMP/E
RESTORE either on the running system or on a clone of the running system
followed by copying the restored part(s) from the SMP/E target libraries
to running system libraries.
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