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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories SMP/E
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 24, 2023

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Backup/Restore During zOSMF Software Update

Scenario: A user would like to apply updates to their Software Instance in Software Update on z/OSMF.

Current: Right now, you can perform a corrective install, recommended install, or functional install and the environment is updated with no backup taken.

Future: We would like the option in z/OSMF to backup the existing SMPE environment (CSI, Target, and Distributed libs) before any Software Update install is performed. Then the existing process can continue. Likewise, we would also like an option to restore a software instance from a backup.

We currently do this process manually via JCL outside the tool, but we feel this is a good failsafe measure especially for persons unfamiliar with SMP/E and uncomfortable with JCL.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Jun 27, 2024

    How would this solution cater for the varied inputs a site would want into a DSS dump of the SMPE env? PARALLEL, COMPRESS, ZCOMPRESS, ADMIN, additional supporting datasets you want alongside the dump, to DASD or TAPE, UNIT, EXPDT etc etc.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 26, 2024

    The first step for any APPLY or ACCEPT processing is to backup the SMP/e environment (Global, DLIB and Target CSIs).

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Software Update: Option to perform DFDSS backup of SMP environment before an APPLY

Currently we perform a dfdss backup of our SMP/E datasets before running an APPLY. It would save time if there was an optional backup with a field to input your backup dataset HLQ. If the user selected this option, it would backup your SMP/E datas...
over 1 year ago in z/OS / SMP/E 1 Future consideration

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