Mark, no I don't ignore HOLDDATA but I must admit I missed that one. My fine toothed comb obviously needs to be renewed. I've actually already configured and implemented a UNICODE image so I'll just apply the ptf and stop there. Thanks Jim McAlpine
On 9/6/05, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:10:55 -0500, Brian Peterson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Please read the ++ HOLD DDDEF text in PTF UA07794. > > <snip> > > Jim, I hope you don't routinely ignore HOLDDATA when applying > maintenance! Even DOC holds sometimes contain actions (even > though they should not by definition). Very few holds can > be "ignored" (for example, "IPL" when you know you are applying > maintenance to a target sysres that has to be IPLed in order to > use it). > > > >>but there is still no reference as to what it is used for. > > The PTF added support to initialize / load a usable pre-customized > UNICODE environment if one doesn't exist at IPL time for DB2. This > saves you the trouble of defining all the conversions. However, > if you require unicode you may want to create your own conversion > image anyway as the pre-configured image size is something > like 39M and is fixed storage. Depending on the size of > your system(s) that may be a nit or it could be an issue. > I think the size of our customized image is only around 1M. > > Search the archives for more. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden > Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead > Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Systems Programming expert at http://Search390.com/ateExperts/ > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
