I am having a fascinating adventure going to zOS 1.8 courtesy of
IBM/Tivoli/Candle/Omegamon. I received and applied the products along
with my Serverpac. Then I go to install what Tivoli calls V4.1, but is
550 as far as Omegamon II MVS is concerned. I go to look at the manuals
at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v15r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.omegamon_xezos.doc/welcome.htm
And I discover the following:
Configuration and Customization Guide
OMEGAMON II® for MVS
Version 520
GC32-9277-00
December 2001
I call up the nice Mr Kelly at IBM support and he informs me that
IBM believes that the almost SEVEN year old manual from TWO releases back
is adequate, and that there IS NO Config & Cuss manual for 550. So I give
it the old college try, and find that it is like trying to install ZOS
with an XA manual. The manual references other manuals which do not
exist or exist only on CD's. It references other OM products which either
do not exist or have entirely new names. It references datasets which do
not exist or have new names.
Is IBM turning into a company which buys up good software and
turns it into junk? I advise you all to plan lots of extra time if you
undertake to do this upgrade.
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