I had heard about the requirement to go to R11, so I ordered it about 8-9 months ago and tried to install it. It was a TOTAL piece of junk (numerous abends and MANY PTF's needing to be installed). CA finally told me to install the latest PTF tape, and that would fix all of the problems. But the PTF tape in question wasn't ready, and would not be ready for another 3-4 weeks.
After this horrible experience, I decided to just stay on R3.5 for the short term. From what I could tell R11 was not yet GA even though CA said it was. I plan on waiting awhile to do the upgrade. From what I could tell, the CA-Datacom DB portion was very problematic, and the way Jobtrac works seemed to be very different. I'd rather run 3.5 unsupported than to try and install PTF's every day to fix problems in production. C. Todd Burrell Lead z/OS Systems Programmer ITSO (404) 723-2017 (Cell) -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Montevago Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 3:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: CA Jobtrac 3.5 Off Support Hi, I just got a 2nd letter (I don't recall getting the 1st, when was it sent ?) stating that 3.5 is going off support 9/2008. Has anyone migrated to R11 ? I understand there's a DB involved now. I haven't cracked open the books yet but is the DB going to affect the overall function of the scheduler or is it something we can install and ignore. How complicated is the migration. The second letter doen't leave much time for transition. TIA Dean Dean Montevago Sr. Systems Specialist Visiting Nurse Service of New York (212) 609 - 9608 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
