On Sat, 3 May 2014 23:09:01 -0600 Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
:>On 2014-05-02, at 12:04, Jousma, David wrote: :>> As for your question, my suggestion is to instead of using IEBUPDTE statements, is to copy the entire source program, and make a SMPE usermod out of it with your changes added to it(sufficiently documented, of course). We already do this with a few IBM supplied source programs for TWS. It's not too bad to manage, you just run the compare against your modified usermod with the new source to see whats changed, and then reapply your local modifications to the new version of the source in your usermod. :>Replacing an elegantly automated process with a crude and :>tedious manual one. Sigh. :>On 2014-05-03, at 22:26, Ed Gould wrote: :>> I think this might be APARable. Its worth a try. :>Party on, Wayne! If an ISV, i.e., not IBM, did this, there would be calls to change vendors. IBM should be treated equally and their feet should be held to the fire. Of course, there may be an unintended consequence of OCO. :>> -----Original Message----- :>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Sidler :>> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 12:15 PM :>> :>> At one time I set up IEBUPDTE (or SMP/E USERMOD ++MACUPD) jobs to update some IBM sample programs before I used them to make it easier to tell what was updated from the supplied source and possible make migration to new releases easier. Now, going to a new CICS release, the sample programs no longer have sequence numbers. This breaks my IEBUPDTE process for sure. (It also breaks ISPF COMPARE to see what has changed!) Perhaps someone can save me some time and tell me what they're doing for this? :>> :>An alternative to IEBUPDTE is "patch", supplied by z/OS, :>which does not require sequence numbers. Patch is much :>improved if you have "diff3", not supplied by z/OS, but :>readily available elsewhere. :> :>SuperC provides the UPDCMS8 option which produces DELTA :>output in a form suitable for input to CMS UPDATE, and :>UPDMVS8 which produces DELTA output in a form suitable :>for SYSIN for IEBUPDTE. UPDCMS8 requires only that the :>OLD comparand have valid sequence numbers; UPDMVS8 requires :>that both OLD and NEW have valid sequence numbers. YTF!? :> :>Faced with this, I use the UPDCMS8 option, and have :>written a fairly simple Rexx filter to tranform UPDCMS8 :>format to UPDMVS8. -- Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
