Mark, You should never have to RESTORE our FUNCTION to apply IEBGENER maintenance. You will need to do an APPLY REDO for our FUNCTION when IEBGENER maintenance includes JCLIN. My preference is to use our other method for installing SYNCGENR because I feel it is simpler. As to your second question we have customers running many different operating system releases, some back as far as OS390. A USERMOD needs to include the FMID that owns IEBGENER. This changes with every level of the operating system which would require the installer to modify the USERMOD. We were trying to make this as simple as possible.
I spoke with our Software Services Group this morning about possibly changing the delivered default for this area. Hopefully it will be for the best. John Reda Syncsort, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: SYNCGENR (was Re: CPU time differences for the same job) On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 10:30:20 -0500, Reda, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If using SMP/E to do the install, there are 2 functions that can be >chosen. One of the functions simply creates the alias's for IEBGENER, >etc. We will use the IBM supplied IEBGENR alias to get back to the real >IEBGENER. Using this function, we will not link IEBGENER into SYNCGENR. >The other method does the linking of the modules together. We offer both >methods because different sites prefer different methods. There are >some sites that prefer not to replace IEBGENER with SYNCGENR. This is >the reason for there to be a function to begin with. > >John Reda >Syncsort, Inc. > (changed the subject line... way off topic from the original thread) Hi John, Thanks for the information. I haven't installed it in over 5 years (since I've been at my current employer). I'll have to talk to my coworker to see why he has been using the option to link the modules together. That makes z/OS maintenance more difficult since I have to restore the function if there is maintenance to one of the IEBGENER modules (just happened in my last RSU upgrade). Which brings up another point... why is that option delivered as a function and not a usermod since it goes against the z/OS SMP/E zones? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
