The reason for the same FMID's is because while we are changing the release number; it can be done with a simple maintenance upgrade. For example, going from R5.2 to R11.0 or even to R11.5 does NOT require a complete new install of the product. Instead, you can simply apply APAR's and/or PTF's.
Starting with r11.5 all published maintenance is now published as PTF's, not APAR's. Back in R5.2, the published zap's were APAR's and when the modules were replaced with a service-pack it was sent as a PTF. R11.0 was an "in between" type release. Soon after it was released we switched to load-module only maintenance but there were still some zaps published as well. But with r11.5, all published maintenance is a module-replacement in PTF form. So there shouldn't be any problems with that (except for those clients that want a non-SMP format). And since official support for r11.0 ends this month, all maintenance going forward will be PTF format only and module replacement. Russell Witt CA-1 Level-2 Support Manager -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 1:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Question re: CA-1 and SMP/E The practice started with R11 and has been carried forward to R11.5. R5.1 and R5.2 had different FMIDs. It has caused me no end of problems at some customer sites. But then 99%+ of their PTFs are coded ++APAR so they appear to be missing some very basic SMPE concepts. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Hare [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 11:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Question re: CA-1 and SMP/E This is just a historical question for those of you who may be informed more than I: Does anyone know why CA does not use new FMIDs when they have a new release of CA-1? The FMID seems to stay the same whether you're using CA-1 release 5.2, 11.0, or 11.5 ; I'm just curious if anyone knows the reasons why this method is used. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
