Never permanently add UPGRADE to your JCL. You always want to make the decision to upgrade a zone becase it PERMANENTLY upgrades that zone. I'll discuss this in terms of z/OS release but it actually tied to the SMP/e release/PTF level (not z/OS). Let's say are running 1.12, 1.13 and 2.1 z/OS and you want SMP/e to run on all 3 of those versions if possible. If you run the UPGRADE from 2.1, then this zone cannot be updated from 1.12 or 1.13. If you did the UPGRADE from 1.13, then you can't run SMP/e against this zone on your 1.12 system but can run it on 1.13 & 2.1.
WARNING: Run UPGRADE from the lowest level system because you can't back it out after the change. If the receive holddata still fails, then try it on the next higher release but remember you can't use SMP/e from that system. WARNING: Permanently adding UPGRADE to your JCL could risk using SMP/e from older systems. You could accidentally running the job on your newly installed 2.1 system. Jon Perryman On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 9:35 AM, Mainframe Mainframe <[email protected]> wrote: > >Thanks for reply. I am basically receiving HOLD data and getting this >issue. So, as mentioned in last update, Do I have to just update receive >JCL with > >//SMPCNTL DD * > SET BDY (GLOBAL) . > UPGRADE. > RECEIVE HOLDDATA . > >above UPGRADE option and it will receive the data.But I am still not clear > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
