You generally have the option to delay installing an SPE for some time if you don't want the new function. As Ed said, because an SPE is actually 'big', there's more chance for PEs to crop up than for individual narrower-scope PTFs. But eventually you pretty much have to install an SPE because some other maintenance will PRE or COREQ it. Unless you install the SPE, you will accumulate an ever growing chain of PTFs, some maybe HIPER even though not directly related to the new SPE function. By that time, however, most of the egregious bugs in the SPE should have fixes available as well.
While there is no 'free' lunch, there are seemingly free lunches that you have to pay for later. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Woodger Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 2:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: (External):Re: Looking for New Function APARs across the entire z/OS platform? Thanks Ed, that helps. So a typical "old style" PTF for DFSORT, which added several new functions to the product would have been an SPE, either by name or by fact. And, even with the OS on a two-year release cycle, new functions (for anything) can be provided (delivered) at any point (continuously) without having to wait for X months for the new release. That's good. It'll keep many contributors here busy, even if IBM doesn't manage the "update every 11.6 seconds" of Amazon :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
