Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Ed Jaffe wrote:
Yay! I have wanted this since Old Man Noah cornered the market on gopher wood!
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/pdf/oa52650.pdf
That is one very cool enhancement.
For what z/OS release is that available? Yes, I see 'Reported Release' which is
7B0. Ok, I'm perhaps ignorant, but '7B0' is unfamiliar to me?
Ah, the Dreaded RETAIN Release.
OK, for better or for worse, the "release" we show in RETAIN can only be
correlated with the "RETAIN release" documented in the products' program
directories. So, knowing this is a RACF PTF, you would use the z/OS
Program Directory to find, for example, Appendix A., "Component IDs for
Elements in z/OS V2.2.0" on PDF p. 297, here:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/e0zpdz10.pdf
In that table, you would find this entry:
FMID COMP ID Component Name RETAIN Release
HRF77A0 5752XXH00 RACF <snip> 7A0
JRF77AJ 7AJ
Thankfully, the z/OS packaging team has been simplifying the FMID naming
conventions for many components, and so most (but not all) of the FMIDs
that change in a release have the same suffixes. In this case, for z/OS
V2.2, it's 7A0 (US English) and 7AJ (JPN).
So when you see something like:
APPLICABLE COMPONENT LEVEL/SU:
R7B0 PSY UA93099 UP17/08/23 I 1000
R7B0 is the RETAIN release from the Program Directory (in this case,
z/OS V2.3, for which you cannot yet see the PD), UA93099 is the PTF that
closed the APAR, UP17/08/23 is the date of the last update (in this
case, to add the PTF number), and 1000 means the PTF is available as
corrective service and has not yet been assigned a PUTyymm SOURCEID. It
will eventually change to YYMM when it gets one.
I have never bothered to find out what "PSY" and "I" meant. We never
updated RETAIN to get rid of "SU" after "APPLICABLE COMPONENT LEVEL" but
it once meant "Selectable Unit." (I removed the IHASUBIT macro in z/OS
Version 4, IIRC, after the SU bit string was frozen. A number of
IHASUnn macros followed it into oblivion, eventually.)
And, yes. I know. We really should do something to make this easier
someday.
--
John Eells
IBM Poughkeepsie
ee...@us.ibm.com
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