Probably not a good idea. Do you know if they were smpe installed? There could be a copy in your SMPPTS, or SMPSTS datasets? Otherwise, try it, but I'd expect unexpected results.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Dave Jousma AVP | Manager, Systems Engineering Fifth Third Bank | 1830 East Paris Ave, SE | MD RSCB2H | Grand Rapids, MI 49546 616.653.8429 | fax: 616.653.2717 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2019 2:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Assembly JCL for tpx 5.4 **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails** We have some user exits used for TPX 5.2 and unfortunately we don't know where the source codes are located. Is it ok to just copy over to 5.4 ? On Fri, 3 May, 2019, 3:09 AM Mark Zelden, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2 May 2019 15:44:14 -0500, Michael Cleary < > [email protected]> wrote: > > >If the product is installed with SMPE best practice would be to > >install > the exit via an SMPE USERMOD. > > > > Not a bad idea, but I don't consider that necessary if the product > doesn't come with an LMOD for that exit in the product loadlib that is > being replaced by the one you want to create. There is no chance that > product maintenance will regress the exit which is the main reason you > would want a usermod. Good product installation documentation that > says there is an exit in use and putting it in a concatenated loadlib > or even directly into the product loadlib is fine as far as I'm > concerned. Just so the next pour sole that has to upgrade the product > next knows there is an exit and where the source code and asm/lnk JCL > is. > > But that's just my opinion. Creating the usermod is more trouble than > I want to go through if I don't have to do it to protect the integrity > of the product installation. > > Best Regards, > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL > v3 Foundation Certified mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: > https://protect2.fireeye.com/url?k=146e0b62-4832ff6d-146e21fa-0cc47a33 > 347c-65139aa7751c56b9&u=http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html > Systems Programming expert at > http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails** 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
