Platitudes about staying current are all well and good. I'm not being paid to make the decision (although my opinion is well known) I'm paid to get it working.
I'm applying RSU0506 to my testbed. I still need to do all the investigation. IBM are not helping. There will be several months of testing (developer and user) before this goes to Production. The testing is non-negotiable; its frequency (at best) is yearly. As for Cathy and Tom - I too have had to deal with DB2 support. They copped a rocket from me on an incident our DBAs had opened. I have yet to progress to the CICS and DB2 applies - the respective teams have their holddata to peruse at presernt. Shane ... > The problem you get into when you don't stay somewhat current > is that you are then hitting problems that IBM has already fixed. > > You're wasting your time, IBM's time looking at dumps that they > have already written a resolution for, possibly causing downtime to > your systems for a fix that has potentially been available for six+ months, > etc. > Doesn't seem like a good idea. > > I'm not suggesting applying 0506 maintenance level to production tomorrow, > because then you start "finding" problems, but it's a good idea to stay > somewhat > current, and it doesn't take very long at all to do it, if you're only doing > a couple > of months worth of maintenance at a time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
