There's no way to display it because there's not really such a thing as a defined maintenance level for a z/OS system. RSU is a collection of recommended PTFs for a selection of products. So what would be the definition of your system being at a RSU level? Does it imply all the maintenance? For all the components? For just z/OS or also for CICS, DB2, etc? Does it imply all the maintenance for the previous RSU levels? We don't always install all the RSU PTFs because some might be in error for reasons we care about. Does that mean we're not at that RSU level? I don't see an easy way to determine it programmatically, even if there was an agreed definition.
I haven't seen that specific question, but have received similar questions (ex: 'show us you have all security patches installed'). Our reply so far has been to explain the RSU process and show evidence of applying the RSU maintenance on a regular basis (through our internal change control tool). Bart -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lopez, Sharon Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 8:28 To: [email protected] Subject: RSU or maintenance level on a system I already posted this question to IBM but wanted to find out if others are getting this request from their auditors. Our auditors want to be able to display the RSU or maintenance level of our z/OS system. To my knowledge, there is no way to do that (IBM has also agreed). Does anyone know if this is possible and are you getting the same request from your auditors.? Keep in mind that our auditors do know z/OS or mainframe. It sounds like they are used to seeing displays on other platforms with this information with release and fix level. Thank you in advance. ________________________________ Email correspondence to and from this address may be subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties by an authorized state official. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
