By PTF. Here is current maint on my system. I didn’t create these symlinks.
However had already done this at our shop long ago (different symlinks), for
the very same reason. Except, that I get to control when the symlinks change.
TEC1:$ cd /RSM01A/usr/lpp/java
TEC1:$ ls -al
total 96
drwxr-xr-x 6 P0SJR OMVSGRP 8192 Jul 5 10:43 .
drwxr-xr-x 42 P0SJR OMVSGRP 8192 Jan 26 14:35 ..
drwxr-xr-x 12 P0SJR OMVSGRP 8192 Apr 22 04:01 J7.1
drwxr-xr-x 12 P0SJR OMVSGRP 8192 Apr 22 04:07 J7.1_64
drwxr-xr-x 12 P0SJR OMVSGRP 8192 Apr 28 00:44 J8.0
drwxr-xr-x 12 P0SJR OMVSGRP 8192 Apr 28 00:46 J8.0_64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 P0SJR OMVSGRP 28 Feb 8 10:31 current ->
/RSM02A/usr/lpp/java/J8.0_64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 P0SJR OMVSGRP 25 Jul 5 10:43 current_31 ->
/RSM01A/usr/lpp/java/J8.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 P0SJR OMVSGRP 28 Jul 5 10:43 current_64 ->
/RSM01A/usr/lpp/java/J8.0_64
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 12:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: /usr/lpp/java/common (was: IBM Knowledge Centre)
On Mon, 11 Jul 2016 08:31:55 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote:
>John McKown wrote:
>>Am I being too "reactionary" ...?
>
>IBM doesn't think so:
>
>https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2
>r2.hkcz100/kczos043.htm
>
>That link is specifically for z/OS 2.2. Refer to "KC-CI."
>
That page indirectly refers to a particular java version. Lately, IBM in a PTF
I can't find, stabilized the path to java as a symlink from
/usr/lpp/java/current
(finally!) .
Will that be maintained by any PTF that updates java, or will that, like the
contents of /etc, be considered the prerogative of the site administrator?)
Will Pubs do a sweep for mentions of particular java versions and substitute
"current" as was done (mostly) when "dataset" was standardized as "data set"?
(For consistency with the mode, it should be /usr/bin/java -- When in Rome do
as the Romans do. Or perhaps pack your bags for India.)
-- gil
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