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Status Needs more information
Workspace z/OS
Categories z/OSMF
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 30, 2024

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands(Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in Software instance tool, so that the Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task.

z/OSMF, please add the Zone commands listed below (Like in SMP Command generation Selection menu), in the Software instance tool, so that Customer can use them for maintaining their software instance during their regular maintenance task. This will help in automate few of our routine maintenance task in regular process of applying the latest maintenance..

The Command:

ZONECOPY

ZONEEDIT

ZONEDELETE

ZONEEXPORT

ZONEIMPORT

ZONEMERGE

ZONERENAME

GZONEMERGE


Thanks

Dhana

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
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    Aug 30, 2024
    Thank you for submitting this idea to IBM. However, before we respond to the idea, can you please provide more information about your "routine maintenance tasks" that you wish to automate so we can understand the context in which you would use the identified SMP/E commands? Are you cloning or backing up the SMP/E target zone prior to applying maintenance? Is that the task you wish to automate? If so, how do you accomplish this today? Thank you for any detail you can provide.