On Fri, 25 May 2007 07:34:29 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ><snip> >Bottom line: If you are just getting ready to roll out, make sure you >download current holddata and run SMP/E REPORT ERRORSYSMODS. >If you have a PE applied that you can back off - do so. If you have a >PE that has a fixing PTF, APPLY it. If you have a PE that you can't >back off and there is no fixing PTF, see if you can get a ++APAR fix. >If you can't do that, you have to decide if the problem could happen in >your >environment and think about delaying your roll out. > >Mark ></snip> > >Mark, we download all available maintenance and holddata twice a week >and are on IBM problem notification list distributions. It didn't help >us for several of these problems. For a couple of them we were the first >installation to encounter the issue. > > Just to set the record straight, my append to your post wasn't trying to imply you weren't using due diligence. Just trying to help others who are getting ready to roll out. In our case, we were a little more fortunate than you because we didn't order 1.8 until January this year and by the time JES2 exits were written / revised that gave us time to let you and others debug z/OS 1.8 for us. :-) We did ESP for z/OS 1.6. I'm glad we didn't do it for this one (we skipped 1.7) or it may have left a really bad taste in everyone's mouth. I know some people on this list always do ESP - I'm sure they have had lots of fun with 1.8 too. 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
