Or "Something!" ;)

Al Nims
Systems Admin/Programmer 3
Information Technology
University of Florida
(352) 273-1298

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Kirk Wolf
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 3:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: java on Z maintenance level question

Seems as if the developers use the version string as their own "twitter".
I think that part of it will tell you what the person who built had for lunch 
:-)

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) <[email protected]> wrote:

> First the JAVA web page will help:
>
> http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/java/
> drilling down on that web page for the appropriate version will lead 
> you to additional help.
>
> On the page look for and click on the link "IBM 31-bit SDK for z/OS"
> " Java Technology Edition, V6.0.0
>
>     IBM 31-bit SDK for z/OS
>
>     Build Level: July 06, 2014 - SDK6 SR16 FP1
>     (PTF UI19838 / APARs PI21725 and PI21726)"
>
> Then "Product History" will take you to where you click on the 
> "Service Summary" link, this will give you the SR#'s and FP#'s going back.
>
> I agree with Mark Jacobs, the Build is just a WAG, I think it comes 
> from what was done by Oracle.
>
> At least they both are the 31-bit versions of JAVA.
>
> Al Nims
> Systems Admin/Programmer 3
> Information Technology
> University of Florida
> (352) 273-1298
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 3:05 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: java on Z maintenance level question
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a question on java versioning and maintenance levels on z/OS.  
> I have 2 different copies of Java 1.6.0 and am trying to decipher 
> which is the more current.  I've been under the assumption that the 
> SRmFPn gave the maintenance level, and that the higher the numbers, 
> the more current the fix pack.  However I have the following 2 levels 
> of Java and don't know which is newer:
>
> # ./java -version
> java version "1.6.0"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 
> pmz3160_26sr5fp2-20130423_01(SR5
> FP2))
> IBM J9 VM (build 2.6, JRE 1.6.0 z/OS s390-31 20130419_145740 (JIT 
> enabled, AOT enabled)
>
> # ./java -version
> java version "1.6.0"
> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pmz3160sr13fp2-20130424_01(SR13
> FP2)) IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 z/OS s390-31
> jvmmz3160sr13fp2-20130423_146146 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled)
>
>
> Based on the SR5 FP2 on the first one versus the SR13 FP2 on the 
> second one, I would take the second one as being newer maintenance 
> level, but the first says it is build 2.6 and the second is 2.4.  Can 
> somebody explain the differences please?  If explaining the 
> differences consists of pointing me to a manual that does the 
> explanation that would be fine as well, but I couldn't find anything.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rex
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