Hi Jürgen,
You might try the CICS list for CICS specific information. You can go to www.listserv.uag.edu and view the posts for CICS-L list and, if you want to, subscribe. FIXCAT is IBM's stated direction. I don't work with CICS, but I have done a lot of SMP/e. In order to use the FIXCATs to advantage with any SMP/e installed product , your SMP/e install has to be at least SMP/e 3.5. You also have to upgrade the zones to that level as well, a step that is often missed. Once you have SMP/e 3.5 and have run the UPGRADE command for each of your zones, you will be able to process the FIXCATs you should receive with your HOLDDATA. If you are not at the right SMP/e level, you should see this message when you try to receive service. - GIM58903W SMP/E COULD NOT PROCESS A ++HOLD FIXCAT MCS BECAUSE IT WOULD HAVE MADE A CHANGE TO THE GLOBAL ZONE THAT CANNOT BE PROCESSED COMPLETELY BY PRIOR LEVELS OF SMP/E. USE THE UPGRADE COMMAND TO ALLOW SMP/E TO MAKE SUCH CHANGES. A Google search using cics smp/e v3r5 fixcat will bring up several good references that you might find useful, including a few for CICS. A Google search for CICS fixcat will bring up more. HTH, Linda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jürgen Kehr" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 1:54:37 PM Subject: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT 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. -- Freundliche Gruesse / Kind regards Dipl. Math. Juergen Kehr IT Schulung & Beratung / IT Education + Consulting Elfbuchenstrasse 10 34317 Habichtswald Germany Tel. +49-5606-5337408 Fax +49-3222-9341387 Mobil +49-172-5129389 mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
