Is OnDemand V9.0 and V9.5 for z/OS compatible with ACIF 4.6 HQN4460?

[cmodpuser]

Ed, Is OnDemand V9.0 and V9.5 for z/OS compatible with ACIF 4.6 HQN4460 that is shipped with newer version of PSF?
Or should we still use HQN4450 instead?

[Ed_Arnold]

https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS217-482&appname=USN

Hasn't been tested yet.

But certainly if ordering z/OS V2.3 one should install ACIF 4.6 to have it ready to go when the new function is desired.

Ed

[Ed_Arnold]

Hold off on any production implementations of ACIF 4.6 until the fix for PI93196 is available.

Ed

[Ed_Arnold]

A full set of test buckets has been run and it's official:

All currently available releases of CMOD (that's v9.5 and V10.1) fully support ACIF V4.6 with APAR PI93196 installed.
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I am told that for big AFP input files the performance is much better due to this enhancement:

ACIF V4.6 reduces the frequency that GETMAIN and FREEMAIN are called from once for every record of the input file to once for the input file. This change is designed to reduce processing time for jobs with many records

Also, this line item may be of interest:

ACIF V4.5 does not recognize the x'0C' form feed character as the start of a new page. The user must provide an ACIF user exit that removes the x'0C' form feed character and inserts an x'F1' ANSI carriage control at the beginning of each page.

ACIF V4.6 recognizes the X'0C' form feed character as a new page indicator which removes the need for the special user exit.

Ed