Saving configuration changes is a two-step process. After
making the changes in any of the configurators, you must
hold those changes before exiting the configurator to
continue your work.
Use the HOLD command to temporarily hold the changes
made in a configurator. Holding changes allows you to move
among configurators or between a configurator and the global
module without losing changes.
Refer to the sections on the IO, LOG, MISC, or SYSFILE
configurators for information on using HOLD within each
configurator.
The KEEP command (abbreviated KE or K) saves
(stores to disk files) changes held from any of the SYSGEN
configurators.
KEEP has the syntax:
KEEP [ [NAME=]groupname ]
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Groupname may be eight characters or fewer and must
begin with an alphabetic character.
SYSGEN keeps track of the current configuration group,
whether it is the
default group with which you booted the system, a group
specified by the
basegroup parameter on the initial SYSGEN command line,
or a group switched
to by the BASEGROUP global configurator command. If you
do not specify a
basegroup with the KEEP command and did not specify a
group with the
newgroup parameter on the initial SYSGEN command line,
SYSGEN uses the
current working base group (either the default or the one
set by a method
listed above) to save the configuration changes.
The KEEP command can be used to save configuration
changes to a group other than the current working group. In
addition, if the desired group does not already exist, the
KEEP command creates it and then saves the configuration
changes to it. All groups are saved in the SYS account.
To keep changes to a group other than the current working
configuration group, enter the KEEP command and a new
group
name:
sysgen>KEEP NEWCONFG (Sample name only)
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If changes are being saved to a group that has existing
configuration files, SYSGEN asks if that group should be
overwritten:
sysgen>KEEP FEUDAL
purge old configuration (yes/no) ?NO
** configuration files not saved **
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Answering NO cancels the command.
If insufficient space exists on the main system disk to
accommodate the creation of a new configuration group,
SYSGEN issues a message indicating this. SYSGEN then
terminates, losing the temporary files and the changes.