On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 23:12:04 +0530, Nathan Astle wrote:

>Should I be looking into the PE or HIPER for z/OS ? If so what should be
>looking into it especially?

Yes.

You should apply the maintenance that is available, using your standard 
methodology. 
Everyone has different preferences, but IMO when installing a new release, it 
is better to 
apply all available service. Some may prefer to let the normal maintenance 
"age" before 
applying it and I would not fault anyone for doing it that way. However, all 
HIPER 
maintenance should be applied.

The most unreliable MVS system that I ever worked on was one where the base MVS 
was applied and none of the maintenance that came with it was applied. The 
excuse that
 was given by the person who did it was that he was a contractor and the site 
didn't want
 to pay him to apply the maintenance. I would have done it at the same time 
using 
something like:

APPLY FMID(fmid list) FORFMID(fmid list).

-- 
Tom Marchant

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