Hello,
from some IBM information I find out that sevral years ago a tool named
EPSPT (Enhanced Preventive Service Planning Tool) existed, which used
extracted PSP bucket data to report missing PTFs for several products in
a z/OS environment. Therefore it used data from the FTP server at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/s390/pspapartool/
There is still some data available on this site, but it seemes that IBM
stopped the update of this data in 2011. The tool itself was replaced by
the SMP/E FIXCAT processing.
The PSP buckets are still available under
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/psp/srchBroker and they are
regulary updated.
But with these new data I have some problems/questions:
1. It seems that for some major products (for example CICS) FIXCATs are
not yet available. So because the data on the FTP server is not updated
anymore and these FIXCATs are missing I have no way for an automated
check for missing fixes. Or is there any other place, where the actual
extracted PSP data is stored.
2. When I'm looking for the PSP buckets on the site named above, I'm
able to get all the information from any PSP bucket, but only displayed
in my browser. I didn't find a way to get them downloaded as txt files,
nor I find an FTP server where I can get the txt files. If I would find
a way to get such easy flat files, it would be possible to extract the
required information for missing PTFs by myself.
Thanks in advance for any help in this topic.
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Dipl. Math. Juergen Kehr
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