I totally agree with some of the previous postings, a RSU or PUT level is no really meaningful value, to identify a specific maintenance level. Nevertheless a while ago a similar task occured on my desk: We should verify that security/integrity PTFs, which are named in IBM's security portal are installed in our systems. On our production systems we use libraries which are copies of the SMP/E managed target libraries. So we built the following process to solve this problem.
For any relevant PTF we determine one module the PTF changes, we name it reference module, for example it may be a LMOD or an HFS element, for this module we determine a hash value, which is a SHA-1 value or a CKSUM for HFS elements. This value is stored in a DB2 table. When the new maintenance level is rolled out, on any system we determin the hash value again and compare it to the value in the table. When the value matches for all our systems, we can build a report which says that the specific security PTF is active on all our systems. Regards Juergen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
