Although this isn't too much of a risk for us, I do have to say that protecting IBM from having to diagnose my problems by putting my SMP/E system into a wait state doesn't quite match what I would hope for as a customer.
Best regards, David Tidy IS Technical Management Dow Benelux B.V. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Mulder Sent: 28 September 2010 21:05 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IPLTEXT and NUCLEUS dates IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> wrote on 09/28/2010 01:17:04 PM: > recently I found out that IPLTEXT and the NUCLEUS (not sure which > module) must have the same date. > > If I remember correctly you get WAIT075 if the dates are not of the same > day. > > Has anyone know the logic beyond this dependency ? > > What it is suppose to protect us from ? I could not find a reasonable > explanation for this. This ensures that you use ICKDSF to rewrite your IPL text any time you install a release or PTF which changes IEAIPL00. It protects you from have problems caused by IPLing with downlevel IPL text. It protects IBM from having to diagnose those problems. It has worked this way since SP4.3.0 (around 1993). Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
