Would it be wonderful if IBM could just figure out how to make the FMID's really directly relate the the software product name...
--- On Sat, 5/30/09, Richards, Robert B. <robert.richa...@opm.gov> wrote: > From: Richards, Robert B. <robert.richa...@opm.gov> > Subject: Re: FMID descriptions > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Date: Saturday, May 30, 2009, 4:25 PM > I will checkout the Migration > Assistant BIN file, but so far, the > BCNFMDS table entries seem to have the most complete > English > descriptions. And since I now have working code to read > those entries, I > have a potential solution. > > My follow-on to Kurt was to ask him if that is an adequate > source that > is updated continually. > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] > On > Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:38 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: FMID descriptions > > On Fri, 29 May 2009 17:54:57 -0400, Kurt Quackenbush <ku...@us.ibm.com> > wrote: > > >Mark Zelden wrote: > >> Bob and I spoke off-list about this. SMP/E > is a bad spot for what he > >> is looking for. Too many FMIDs are part of > z/OS base. For example, > >> RACF (HRF*). > > > >Huh? Given the FMIDs reported by REPORT > ERRSYSMODS, I thought Bob was > >asking for a method to obtain the DESCRIPTION for said > FMIDs. Is that > >not the case? > > > >Bob, if not the FMID Descriptions, what exactly are you > looking for? > An > >example would be helpful. > > > > Sorry, I was referring to the output of LIST PRODUCT > (which doesn't > show > FMIDs) or LIST FEATURE which lumps a bunch of FMIDs into > z/OS V1 Base. > > I hadn't thought of the migration assistant... but I > remember Bob > mentioning > it now and didn't put 2 and 2 together with the ISPF > table. > > So Bob, If you don't want to play with ISPF tables, I think > you can > parse the > output of a migration assistant "products applied" report > fairly easy > since > there > just a single line for each FMID and description and match > that to the > REPORT ERRORSYSMODS FMID. > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden > Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead > Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS > G-ITO > mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com > z/OS Systems Programming expert at > http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ > Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
