I also heard about this during the week in San Jose, with this additional -
Ordering for 1.9 ends soon and all 1.9 orders SHOULD be in by mid October, deadline being the end of October. At the GA date for 1.10, FIXCAT data will begin to be shipped in the HOLDDATA, including the ServerPac 1.9 orders built after the 1.10 GA. I too, like Skip mentions, heard the SMP/e at levels 3.3 and 3.4 will not fail, but absent the toleration PTF, there will be a LOT of messages to wade through. I plan to put in SMP/e 3.5 myself. Linda Mooney -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Joel C. Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > And with the toleration PTF, that's all you get - toleration. The new > FIXCAT holddata, which will be included in HOLDDATA shipped after Sept > 26, is not received, just skipped over without the 30K+ warning messages > and RC8 from receive. You have to migrate to SMP/E 3.5 (and use the > UPGRADE command to enable FIXCAT processing) in order to actually store > any of the new FIXCAT data into your Global zones. > > This looks like a very useful feature - possibly even a good reason to > separately upgrade SMP/E if not planning to install z/OS 1.10. It in > effect eliminates the need to manually download PSP buckets and manually > attempt to reconcile what PTFs you may be missing from the PSP before > installing new hardware, migrating to new z/OS releases, etc. > > Skip Robinson wrote: > > I heard about this change several times during the week in San Jose. I'm > > pretty sure that the message was that RECEIVE will *not fail* absent the > > toleration PTF. You will get 30K+ messages complaining about unrecognized > > data in the input stream and a return code 8 to make you pay attention. All > > recognized data--that is, everything you currently process > > successfully--will be properly digested and absorbed, as all properly > > absorbed nutrients are, into vital motors for the sustenance of the total > > organism. The undigested intake is deposited elsewhere. > > > > In other words, without the toleration PTF, you will have to deal with a > > rather foul mess, but there will be no harm. > > > > . > > . > > JO.Skip Robinson > > Southern California Edison Company > > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > > 626-302-7535 Office > > 323-715-0595 Mobile > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ... > > -- > Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR [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
