Warning: It's been a year and a half since I last supported a VM system, so take what I say with a grain of salt, not as Gospel truth. Or, take this as an invitation to step back and look at the larger picture.

On May 5, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Steve Harman wrote:

We have a vm 5.2 system (yes, now unsupported) running RSCS v3.2. I've been told that we need to be off the old release of RSCS by the end of June
or we'll incur a monthly fine.

RSCS is now packaged with the base OS.

RSCS was packaged with z/VM 5.2 as well, even with z/VM Version 4 systems. It might be functionally very similar to RSCS V3, but it should have been an option to license (if needed) the RSCS feature instead of the RSCS program product with z/VM 5.2. Obviously, there's some reason you think you're running RSCS V3 R2, so there might have been a good reason to do so (an old OTC license?), but it'd be an odd configuration.

One thing I need to do is
assemble some exits and rebuild the RSCS loadlib using the FL540 maclibs.

Are you sure?

I don't mean to be flip about this, but,

a) are you sure you need these exits?
b) are you sure the exits assembled under z/VM 5.2 won't run with the z/VM 5.4 level of RSCS? c) how'd they get assembled under z/VM 5.2, anyway? Did someone supply them to you already assembled? If so, do they have 5.4 levels as well?

Given your short deadlines and your lack of VM knowledge in house, it might even be worth your employer's money to bring in a consultant to make this happen for you, studying the exits in place and seeing if they're needed or how to assemble them for your z/VM 5.4 system.

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