Kurt, Speaking of RSUs, is there a way to provide an inventory of PTFs already received so that I don't end up reordering and transmitting gigabytes of PTFs that have already been ordered, downloaded and received? As it is now, I am forced to run the RSU job on the weekend so that I stop getting the "17 of 20" failures after hours of wall clock time.
And while I am thinking of enhancements, how about an optional check of a mask against a mask of the DDDEF volser that would flag a difference? Yeah, I know, the file allocation report is supposed to be the last line of defense, but sometimes it is tough to spot a one character difference. Ask me how I know. Still not sure why a coworker changed it without letting others know. Bob -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Quackenbush Sent: Friday, May 24, 2019 9:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RSUs On 5/23/2019 10:18 AM, Styles, Andy , ITS zPlatform Services wrote: > We did a RECEIVE ORDER CONTENT(RECOMMENDED) in early April (just after the > "New Service Levels" email), and got a number of fixes for RSU1903. Over the > last couple of days, it's been discovered that we are missing a few PTFs that > would be part of RSU1903 - or earlier. > > Yesterday, I therefore as an exercise did another RECEIVE ORDER > CONTENT(RECOMMENDED), and this time got more fixes for RSU1903. > > Do IBM assign RSU numbers retrospectively to PTFs, after the published RSU > date? No, IBM does NOT assign RSU sourceids to PTFs retroactively after the published RSU date. At least its not supposed to work that way. Are you sure on your second RECEIVE ORDER one or more ASSIGN statements for RSU1903 were received? Or did you specify the RSU1903 SOURCEID on the RECEIVE command your self? If you did receive such ASSIGN statements, and if you still have it, I'd like to see the RECEIVE command output for both jobs please. BTW, as already mentioned, consider using CONTENT(ALL) instead of CONTENT(RECOMMENDED) in the future. I'm hard pressed to think of a good reason to only obtain recommended PTFs these days. Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies PTFs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
