Re: RACF Parmlib Support - OA52650

[Elardus Engelbrecht]

John Eells wrote:

>> For what z/OS release is that available? Yes, I see 'Reported Release' which 
>> is 7B0. Ok, I'm perhaps ignorant, but '7B0' is unfamiliar to me?

>Ah, the Dreaded RETAIN Release.

[ ... snipped for brevity ... ]

Thanks for your very interesting reply.


>And, yes.  I know.  We really should do something to make this easier someday.

Sh, non z/OS people like managers and auditors may NOT know secret things 
only us techies and sysprogs know... ;-D

John, many thanks again for your kind postings. I really appreciate your time 
and kindness to share.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: RACF Parmlib Support - OA52650

[John Eells]

Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:

Ed Jaffe wrote:


Yay! I have wanted this since Old Man Noah cornered the market on gopher wood!



ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/pdf/oa52650.pdf


That is one very cool enhancement.

For what z/OS release is that available? Yes, I see 'Reported Release' which is 
7B0. Ok, I'm perhaps ignorant, but '7B0' is unfamiliar to me?


Ah, the Dreaded RETAIN Release.

OK, for better or for worse, the "release" we show in RETAIN can only be 
correlated with the "RETAIN release" documented in the products' program 
directories.  So, knowing this is a RACF PTF, you would use the z/OS 
Program Directory to find, for example, Appendix A., "Component IDs for 
Elements in z/OS V2.2.0" on PDF p. 297, here: 
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/e0zpdz10.pdf


In that table, you would find this entry:

FMIDCOMP ID   Component Name  RETAIN Release
HRF77A0 5752XXH00 RACF  7A0
JRF77AJ   7AJ

Thankfully, the z/OS packaging team has been simplifying the FMID naming 
conventions for many components, and so most (but not all) of the FMIDs 
that change in a release have the same suffixes.  In this case, for z/OS 
V2.2, it's 7A0 (US English) and 7AJ (JPN).


So when you see something like:

APPLICABLE COMPONENT LEVEL/SU:
R7B0 PSY UA93099 UP17/08/23 I  1000

R7B0 is the RETAIN release from the Program Directory (in this case, 
z/OS V2.3, for which you cannot yet see the PD), UA93099 is the PTF that 
closed the APAR, UP17/08/23 is the date of the last update (in this 
case, to add the PTF number), and 1000 means the PTF is available as 
corrective service and has not yet been assigned a PUTyymm SOURCEID.  It 
will eventually change to YYMM when it gets one.


I have never bothered to find out what "PSY" and "I" meant.  We never 
updated RETAIN to get rid of "SU" after "APPLICABLE COMPONENT LEVEL" but 
it once meant "Selectable Unit."  (I removed the IHASUBIT macro in z/OS 
Version 4, IIRC, after the SU bit string was frozen.  A number of 
IHASUnn macros followed it into oblivion, eventually.)


And, yes.  I know.  We really should do something to make this easier 
someday.


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Re: RACF Parmlib Support - OA52650

[Roach, Dennis]

Love it.
Cross posted to RACF-L

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Subject: RACF Parmlib Support - OA52650

Yay! I have wanted this since Old Man Noah cornered the market on gopher wood!

ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/pdf/oa52650.pdf 


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Re: RACF Parmlib Support - OA52650

[Elardus Engelbrecht]

Klaus Stanislawiak wrote:

>7B0 (last three characters of the FMID) corresponds to z/OS 2.3.

Thanks Klaus. I have also been informed offlist, that z/OS v2.2 is 7A0, z/OS 
v2.3 is 7B0 and so on.

Much appreciated! 

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: RACF Parmlib Support - OA52650

[Klaus Stanislawiak]

7B0 (last three characters of the FMID) corresponds to z/OS 2.3.

Regards,
Klaus

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Re: RACF Parmlib Support - OA52650

[Elardus Engelbrecht]

Ed Jaffe wrote:

>Yay! I have wanted this since Old Man Noah cornered the market on gopher wood!

>ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/pdf/oa52650.pdf

That is one very cool enhancement.

For what z/OS release is that available? Yes, I see 'Reported Release' which is 
7B0. Ok, I'm perhaps ignorant, but '7B0' is unfamiliar to me?

TIA!

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: RACF Parmlib Support - OA52650

[Roger Lowe]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:25:09 -0700, Ed Jaffe  
wrote:

>Yay! I have wanted this since Old Man Noah cornered the market on gopher
>wood!
>
>ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/zos/racf/pdf/oa52650.pdf

Second that ! - gets rid of two usermods for us

Roger

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