Hello David Boyes, I agree with you. BUT...... (having said that) this sound like a NON-z/VSE, NON-z/VM system only. And then only when the VENDOR will not Certify the system using the new levels.
IE. ORACLE and levels of UNIX, and products that have be tested/debugged on a Certain level of JAVA. Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-588-4723 ext 40441 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:53 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Philosophical question... Background: Upgrading a system to current level. Have a vendor product that insists on the installation of a backlevel component application that causes the configuration and service management system to report errors in the configuration. Vendor insists that the backlevel component is the only way, but the errors cause problems with future upgrades and overall configuration management by reporting false positives when checked for whether the system is up to date and has all service applied. Question: I believe the maker of the vendor product is in error here. Am I wrong? -- db
