The Southern California Z User Group held its quarterly meeting this week at Pacific Life Insurance Company in Newport Beach. As usual, we featured two topics, one of which happened to be zD&T. The presentation pdf is now available. Since this is an IBM sponsored group, the presentation should be valuable to all customers. I hope it will answer some of the questions in this thread. If nothing else, you will have an expert contact.
https://ibm.box.com/s/g2kubb58gbzhweeif0x70vm634rnqsqq . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 2:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: IBM ZD&T I think they restructured the passport advantage site AKA as the site to down load ADCD and RD&T. I think you can now apply down load and apply PTF’s > On Jan 15, 2018, at 12:59 AM, Barbara Nitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > zD&T comes with an ADCD system, which used to lag behind 12-18 months (when I > worked on an RDT system) about 2 years ago. > > ADCD does not have *any* z/OS support as we know it (when you only have an > RDT system, you cannot order ptfs). The process of 'migrating' to a new ADCD > version is cumbersome to say the least because you have to migrate all > applications to the new system, including any customization you may have > done. The setup does encourage a terrible mixing of applications and systems, > at least if you're not a sysprog. It did not come with SMS set up. > > I made the effort of fixing the ADCD system to make it maintainable. Which > means that I completely restructured the system setup (starting with SMPE and > the sysres layout and including a better USS setup). I also fixed the RACF > database and set up a simple SMS/HSM environment (only L1 migration). > > Once you've done the initial effort of cleaning it up, you can order ptf > refreshs on your 'real' :-) z/OS and distribute them like you would to > another lpar. After that, an RDT system was just another lpar to roll things > out to. An ADRDSSU volume dump can get ftp'd to the ADCD system where it can > get restored to the emulated 'DASD' (Linux files). > > I got lucky in that the upgrade to new z1090 code got done by someone who > knew what he was doing in Linux. For day-to-day operations you need so few > Linux commands that even I could handle that. > > I was even able to define an EAV volume for testing purposes. It is > discouraged to use them heavily because there is no such thing as HiperPAV > (every 'volume' is emulated as a 'simple' Linux File), but testing was good. > > Check the archives, I talked about the ADCD shortcomings in the past. (I even > have a large list of what should get done or get done better flying around > somewhere). > > Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
