On Mon, 14 May 2007 10:15:11 -0400, Walt Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Thus, it makes little, if any, sense to ask what "release" of DFSMS or >RACF you have. Rather, you ask "what release of z/OS do I have". > >There are some exceptions. For example, some elements of z/OS ship new >function (FMIDs) via web downloads. ICSF has done that, I think. This >allows shipment of major new function without needing to coordinate >schedules with the base z/OS schedules. Except for that, though, you >should ask about z/OS release not the "release" level of some component >of z/OS. And for the cases that ship via web deliverable, etc., you >should ask about the FMID, not the release, and the system programmer >certainly knows the FMID, or can find it easily. > It hasn't been done since OS/390, but you were able to order and install a higher level of DFSMS than the DFSMS level that was originally distributed with the OS/390 level at the time (all in a supported configuration). My memory is a little fuzzy on this one, but I think it was OS/390 DFSMS 1.5 that could be ordered and installed on OS/390 2.6 - but OS/390 2.6 came with OS/390 DFSMS 1.4. I don't think I've ever seen a statement that indicates IBM won't do something like that again with z/OS. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ 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
