Hi, we have opened a RFE at IBM for having related FMID, PTFID and APARID as an eye catcher in each load module being generated and maintained via SMP/E.
This would help to detect easily the maintenance level of a particular module and load module. Although the information is available in SMP/E (which PTF is applied), SMP/E doesn't tell in which system a particular LMOD is used. This depends on the deployment concept after SMP/E apply and the administration information where particular maintenance levels are deployed. We think this is a long outstanding requirement from each systems programmer side to always be able to see at which maintenance level a particular module or load module is. It would support customer and vendor side in case of an incident. Various teams in IBM and at other vendor side are already incorporating this information during their maintenance packaging process. Unfortunately not all. It would be great to have this setup as a standard. This is the link to the IBM RFE: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=102792 If you support the implementation of this eye catcher information please vote. Regards Karlheinz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
