Hello All,

Not too sure how many perform ZOS ServerPac upgrades, but it has come to my 
attention that IBM has significantly reduced down the number of program 
utilities provided in CPAC.LINKLiB as of ZOS 2.5 and ZOS 3.1 - utiltiies such 
as SMFDUMP, Master catalog convert and others that many of our clients rely one 
for various purposes (such as SMFDUMP).  

Looking at our ZOS 2.4 system - CPAC.LINKLIB contains 12 programs.

Our ZOS 2.5 system - CPAC.LINKLIB only contains 4 programs.

I thought our bread and butter for ZOS was to always be backwards compatible?  

Why are we removing programs that are hightly useful - anyone running into same 
issues - if so, are you trying to get these reinstated or ???  What are people 
replacing with?   At a minimum they could be included as optional source code 
in SAMPLIB or such?

IBM - if someone can please chime in here and explain why we are removing such 
useful tools and utilities please?

Thanks,

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