The most interesting question is why they make this so incomprehensible. The acerbic answer is: Job Security Lite. If we made it look too easy, they would hire our replacements from passersby on the sidewalk. ;-)
Consider the example: R1G0 PSY UA19532 UP05/08/02 P F508 R1G0 - 'R' here is 'release'; '1G0' are the last three letters of the owning FMID HDZ11G0. In other words, component 'release'. Note that this value does not necessarily change with each z/OS release. It changes only when the component FMID changes. It's important to recognize this because this identifier appears in every standard APAR description in SIS: PTF List: Release 1G0 : UA19532 available 05/08/02 (F508 ) It's left as an exercise for the reader to guess the first three letters of the FMID. One quick way is to check a corresponding PTF entry, which spells it out as in UA19532: PRE-REQS/CO-REQS: AR038 FMID HDZ11G0 PSY - OK, somebody else has to explain this one; my imagination fails me. UP... - I'm open to suggestions. I'm pretty sure it's not important. P - Hmm F508 - This one has fascinates me. The first character is always 'F', and it always stands in for the 'decade digit', in this case '0'. Why? Maybe 'volume identifier' needs to be alpha. The designation rolls over every ten years because the letter has been constant for as long as I've been in this business. Representing the year/month in this fashion is the closest thing we have in the sysprog fraternity to a secret handshake. ;-)) . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 02/07/2006 02:02:38 AM: > I've just read an APAR OA11094 description. > At the end there's a list of PTFs for various levels of RMM. > > R1G0 PSY UA19532 UP05/08/02 P F508 > > How can I find out what PTF should be used for z/OS V1R4 ??? > > What does is recorded in first column ??? > It's not system version, it is not RMM FMID. > What is PSY, what is F508 ? > Why it is so incomprehensible ? > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
