Not everything that uses JAVA gets the benefit of excuting /etc/profile, which is where JAVA_HOME is set for our systems. We have many places where sysprogs, developers have to code a JAVA home. It would be a major headache at system upgrade time to notify everyone that on this date/time they need to update their JAVA_HOME variables from V7 to V8. There are config files for CICS, DB2, RDz, EKM, TOMCAT, application code, etc that all code a JAVA_HOME. My apache webservers, including PKI also have their own variables for home directory for IHS, because IHS, comes delivered with verion/release in the pathname. I don’t want to have to go into every instance of httpd.conf to fix it on the fly with an upgrade.
Some time ago, I went to the effort to symlink JAVA and communicated that to all, and we have had seamless upgrades ever since. Just prior to upgrade IPL, I change the symlink to point to the new version(if necessary), and then IPL. The world is good. _________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Engineering david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 8:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where's Java!? (SMP/E needs to know.) > I also manage manually with generic symlinks. I do this for Apache > webserver as well. Why? I'm interested why you would choose a symlink as opposed to a config which sets an environment variable. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Dave Jousma > Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Engineering david.jou...@53.com > 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f > 616.653.2717 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 4:35 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Where's Java!? (SMP/E needs to know.) > > Dammit! The path to Java changes with any z/OS release and/or any Java > release. I need continually to add to my PATH variable to keep up. And > there's nothing an ISV can supply in JCL samples for SMP/E's SMPJHOME; the > example in the SMP/E Reference is woefully outdated. > > This makes as little sense as if programmers were required to code "//SYSLIB > DD DSN=SYS1.ZOSV2R2.MACLIB". > > I'm inclined to submit an RFE for either a utility to find Java or for IBM's > supplying a usable symbolic link to a preferred Java. > Retroactive; I can't wait for everyone to be on z/OS 2.3 > > Any suggestions on form or rationale for such an RFE? > > Thanks, > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be > privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you > receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in > any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, > distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please > reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was > misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your > assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
