Joseph, The 90 days worth of holddata might be correct in this case, just because your system, built in July, is less than 90 days old. There won't be a gap in the holddata. Before you run any report, retrieve current holddata into your system that covers back to the last date you retrieved holddata. Don't bother trying to read the data itself.
If you run a report today, and the holddata is current, it will show what PTF errors and HIPER errors your system is known to be exposed to today. If your production date is October, then, sometime before you go to production, get the holddata current and run another report. You will undoubtedly see additional entries. Maintenance applied in the interim will possibly eliminate entries seen in the first report. Take care of the entries that look serious enough to your shop. Each report will show you what errors you are known to be exposed to and will be as current as the holddata. There are lots of other ways to receive notification of potential problems. One is this forum, another is the IBMLink Automatic Software Alert Process, another is a subscription to IBM flashes. They will give warning between your refresh of holddata. Those entries should show up in the holddata as well, and very quickly after they become known by the IBM support teams. You can also, as you asked in the first place, do your own searching and wading through results. I just don't do much of that, so I don't know how to do efficient queries that won't also potentially miss errors I would have wanted to see, and the holddata is so darned easy. John Confidentiality notice: The information included in this e-mail, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, distribution or similar action is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies of the original message immediately. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sumi, Joseph J. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Listing HIPERS Let me give more background. My role is management of this activity and I do not receive, apply, etc. We need to change our maint philosophy on how we handle HIPERS. IE: We build z/OS 1.8 on a test system with a July ESO but do not go production to October. I want to find out about HIPERS from July-September. They would be evaluated to make sure nothing hot is missing. We would then selectively apply HIPERS that are applicable. That's my idea right now..... Are you saying that if my MVS guy received 90-days of enhanced holddata, we could look it over and selectively apply what is needed or would all 90-days worth of this maint go on? What would you (or others) do with my example scenario......? Also, going forward from October, how would you handle HIPERS that come out. Thanks. Rgrds, Joseph Sumi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
