I'm a newbie. I know next to nothing about VM, so please understand my goofy questions are not from laziness, it's sheer ignorance on my part.
I am the primary vm sysprog at our site, or I'd go ask our experienced person. We have a vm 5.2 system (yes, now unsupported) running RSCS v3.2. I've been told that we need to be off the old release of RSCS by the end of Ju ne or we'll incur a monthly fine. RSCS is now packaged with the base OS. I've ordered and sort of installe d VM5.4 on a 2-lvl guest system. I will not have it to a point where I can put it on our production system before the end of June because of my inexperience. I feel safer running on an unsupported version than trying to migrate 5.4 before I'm ready. IBM has offered some suggestions on getting the FL540 version of RSCS fro m the 2-lvl guest to our production system. One thing I need to do is assemble some exits and rebuild the RSCS loadlib using the FL540 maclibs. I sent the source assemble files, the lkedctrl file, and a cntrl file to the 5.4 system's 5vmrsc40 191 disk. To most of you, I'm sure that sounds simple. I've been going through the RSCS ProgDir trying to figure out how to assemble exits and rebuild the load lib. The problem is, when I try to do a VMFHLASM command as shown i n the example, it fails because it can't find HLASM MODULE. I browsed the VMFHLASM exec and it calls VMFASM EXEC. Looks like it falls thru looking for HLASM MODULE because it can't find ASMAHL MODULE. I guess we don't have the hi-lvl assembler, it must be a cost feature. Seems like ProgDir shouldn't use it in the examples. So, I found the CMS assemble command. After a little trial and error, I got one of the exits to assemble (with a few IFO012 errs, haven't figured that out yet). I had to do a 'global maclib DMTMACV3 GCTGPI HCPGPI HCPOM1 DMSGPI DMSOM' to get what I think are the required macro libs. Am I headed in the right direction, or am I wasting a lot of my time? If I get my exits assembled, how do I get the FL540 RSCS to hook them in? Thanks for any suggestions.
