On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Florian <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for answering my post. > > I see that there are several versions of the PIPE program. > > What I find strange is that I downloaded the books, especially CMS/TSO > Pipelines Author's Edition 1.1.11 from the official IBM site and thought it > would refer to that version shipped in z/VM 5.4 CMS. This seems not to be > the case.
Correct, the indoor plumbing shipped with z/VM is well over 10 years old. The Runtime Library is continuously being enhanced and improved, and available for all VM installations to download. > Shouldn't there be a sort of information telling this? > > In the manual it is written: > > This edition, SL26-0018-05, applies to CMS/TSO Pipelines Version 1 Release 1 > Modification Level 11 sublevel 13 and to all subsequent releases > | and modifications of this product until otherwise indicated in new > editions or Technical Newsletters. Refer to the Author's Edition on the CMS Pipelines web pages and hang out on CMSPIP-L with questions. > But what is the version shipped originally with z/VM 5.4? Is there a sort of > level command to identify the version? pipe query level > I am a little bit concerned to change from the original version but I will > have a look on the tools mentioned to switch. There are a few documented differences and there's a DMS vs FPL style to configure. I still have to find real life cases where it causes trouble but you may need one or two tricks to make your pipeline work with both old and new. Rob
