Thanks Kurt. My idea was to produce a report sourceid on the global target zones (since acept will remove the PTFs related to this sourceid) and get the last PUTxxxx listed. This one will work even if I am running on a lower level system. correct?
ITschak *| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for Z/OS, zLinux and IBM I **| * *|* *Email**: [email protected] **|* *Mob**: +972 522 986404 **|* *Skype**: ItschakMugzach **|* *Web**: www.Securiteam.co.il **|* On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 5:27 PM Kurt J. Quackenbush <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to check the last date holddata was received on my MVS csi, > without looking at the logs. Is that information written somewhere in SMP > and can be retrieved by query? > > SMP/E does maintain the date each ++HOLD statement was received, but it > does not expose it, not even in the CSI Query API. However, z/OSMF > Software Management has two reports which query the HOLDDATA and both > expose that date. So, if you define a Software Instance for your installed > software you can perform the Maintenance Reports -> Missing Critical > Service or Missing FIXCAT SYSMODs actions. The resulting report contains a > "HOLDDATA Received" column indicating the most recent date ERROR or FIXCAT > HOLDDATA was received into the global zone. > > Kurt Quackenbush > IBM | z/OS SMP/E and z/OSMF Software Management | [email protected] > > Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies PTFs. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
