Where I thought it was something that would be fixed with a service
pack, it turns out, it was a novice type error.
In IPLing the text decks in CMS to start the Suse installation process,
I was punching out the 31 bit text decks and not the 64 bit text decks.
The install seemed to go normally,
Been off on other things and our SUSE service contract was taken over by
Novell (hence, networking is now paying for our SLES service contract on
the mainframe). I don't know if that is good or not. I'm no longer in
control.
Anyway, while the contracts are straighten out (or at least my