On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:27:51 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>What would you suggest as a means of making sure that customers use the proper release of the binder? > >I cannot think of anything stronger than documenting it an making customers read the funny manual. > >Of course, I also find it hard to understand why people won't use current tools. > It's not about not wanting to use the tools, it's about applying maintenance from a driving system that is at a lower level than the target system. It should be S.O.P. to use the STEPLIB, but I'm not sure if/where it is documented. ServerPac builds JCL with the MIGLIB STEPLIB. I've always thought about needing the STEPLIB when the SMP/E level is higher on the target system (and SMP/E is very good about complaining when it doesn't recognize a new element type if you forget) but I usually don't think about it for the binder. Because I installed SMP/E 3.4 under z/OS 1.6, I ran into a similar glitch when applying a usermod for one of my JES2 exits when I upgraded to z/OS 1.8. That JCL now has the STEPLIB for MIGLIB. One thing not in MIGLIB that you may need in your STEPLIB for applying maintenance / usermods from a lower level system is a STEPLIB to hlq.SASMMOD1 (high level assembler) when that changes. Hence, almost all of our usermod JCL (which usually get installed from a driving system at a lower level) has a STEPLIB to both. I'm pretty sure ServerPac jobs also include it when needed. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS 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
