I went and looked at APARs VM64814 and VM64816 on IBMLink. Almost no info
rmation! They both
simply say NF NEWFUNCT, with no description. Come on IBM, why the secrecy
?
VM64814 says:
COMMENTS:
New Function
Support Statement:
IBM is supporting this in customer test environments until APAR
VM64816 becomes available later this year (2010). IBM will
support all z/VM production environments at that time.
That makes it sound like a beta! Is this safe to put on? What constitute
"customer test
environments"? Where should we NOT install it?
Alan Ackerman
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:19:50 -0700, O'Brien, Dennis L <dennis.l.o'br...@b
ankofamerica.com>
wrote:
>I understand that VM64814 adds XRC timestamp support. The PTF's are ava
ilable. The z/VM
platform update at SHARE mentioned that there would be a SYSTEM CONFIG ch
ange to activate it.
Where do I find information on that? The recent SSL changes had a nice w
eb page with all the
details, and one of the PTF's described the changes. I haven't been able
to find any of that for
VM64814. The APAR and PTF just say "new function". If it weren't for SH
ARE, and someone who
told me what the APAR was for, I'd have no idea what new function I was p
utting in, or that an
additional step was required to activate it.
>
>I found a couple of references on the IBM site that said VM64814 and VM6
4816 would add the
function. VM64816 is "assigned to a programmer". Does VM64814 do anythi
ng without
VM64816? Will VM64816 provide the documentation?
>
Dennis O'Brien
>
>"A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you leas
t expect it. That would
make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit." -- August 1993 is
sue of PS Magazine,
preventive maintenance magazine of the US Army
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