> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 6:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:27 AM, Lopez, Sharon <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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. > > > > z/OS is composed of many parts. What I might do would be to look at the > SOURCEID list for your z/OS target zone. And say something like: "We are on > z/OS 1.12 RSU 9912, plus a few (thousand) special patches"
If your auditors are anything like mine were, don't ever say patches. For some reason, they assumed patches were uncontrolled. I would say "... plus additional updates that IBM did not assign an RSU level to." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
