On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:22:34 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:23:40 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > >>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. >> >Searching the manuals for "UPGRADE", I find mention of "incompatible >changes to SMP/E data sets". It's been a pleasantly long time since >I endured this. What are the compatibility considerations for >upgraded data sets? > >o Will they be tolerated and not corrupted by earlier releases of > SMP/E if the toleration PTF is applied? > >o Will earlier releases of SMP/E that encounter upgraded data sets > at worst fail harmlessly without corrupting the data sets? > >We test with many levels of system software, and I'm curious what >level of isolation we'll need to enforce among different OS releases. > Unless you need to support the new holddata being received into your CSI, I don't think you need to do the UPGRADE. That should take care of most of your concerns. For the z/OS zone and other IBM software zones that you want to use with the new holddata, you probably need to wait until all sharing systems are running 3.5, or run with a JOBLIB/STEPLIB that points to the 3.5 level (and the required path / DDDEF to get to the correct unix files that match the level (SMPCHOME). The easiest thing to do is to install 3.5 everywhere you can. 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
