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CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« on: February 11, 2011, 02:48:12 PM »
any other Z customers with plans to upgrade?  We have some pre-reqs to apply before we can install.


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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2011, 10:00:35 AM »
Hi Geoff

I wanted to go for this right now, but the other guys wanted to wait a while due to other projects.
If anybody starts to upgrade, pls share your progress here

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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2011, 11:52:59 AM »
FYI - It's pretty common knowledge that DB2 V9 is a pre-req for CMOD 8.5, but I see that per the Program Directory z/OS 1.11 is also a pre-req.

Ref:  GI10-8847   OnDemand Servers V8.5 Program Directory
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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2011, 10:08:36 AM »
Is anyone running v 8.5 on z/OS 1.12?  We're looking at migrating to 8.5 and we have a z/OS 1.12 migration schedule right in the middle of it.

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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2011, 09:55:11 AM »
we're going to hit apply later today in our tech environment. We'll be on z1.12 and CMOD 8.5.

There are a few new parms too, like the oam slow retrieve parm.
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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2011, 10:59:10 AM »
Great.  Thanks!   Good to know we won't be the alpha for this.  If you could, it would be appreciated if you could post any gotcha's that may pop up.  We're looking forward to this migration, some nice changes in this release.

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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2011, 11:24:08 AM »
verdict is still out, but it seems we might be the alpha on the Z platform
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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2011, 09:47:01 PM »
verdict is still out, but it seems we might be the alpha on the Z platform

The only thing I know is that the CGI component of ODWEK seems to have a bug in Z, during the logout procedure some things are not cleanup correctly. It was working with 8.4.1, but not anymore with 8.5.
Except that, I haven't heard of anything strange between 8.4.X and 8.5 in Z at the moment.

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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2011, 07:23:28 AM »
well, we've cleaned up a bit. The readme will be changed to reflect some install steps, but we ran a program called ARSMIG85 which converts line feed commands. In our case, we did not need to run that, so we ran the program again to convert back.
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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2011, 09:39:27 AM »
I just got notification of the updated README:

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27020591
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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2011, 09:44:47 AM »
Thanks Ed.
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Ordering The Latest ACIF
« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2011, 10:36:39 AM »
I have learned that ACIF no longer automatically ships with the H272850 Base FMID in 8.5.   

It is free, but needs to be ordered separately out of the InfoPrint family in ShopzSeries.

The Program Directory for H272850 is incorrect and will be revised to say that ACIF must be ordered separately.

The latest ACIF is HQN4430.
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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2011, 07:24:42 AM »
We just hit a small snafu with the upgrade.  Nothing major but worth mentioning in the case someone else hits this problem.  When running the V8.5 arsdb command our lead technical was getting an exception error:

CEE3204S The system detected a protection exception (System Completion Code=0C4)
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From entry point u_file_write_44_arsxh at compile unit offset +00000054
at entry offset +00000054 at address
10AFC424.


He could run the V8.4 arsdb command with no issues.
I found I was able to run the v8.5 arsdb command with no issues. 
When checking ulimits we discovered he had:
address space     36928k

and I had:
address space     172264k

After upping his address space the arsdb command works fine.  Safe to guess that the new arsdb is taking up a bit more space out there.

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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #13 on: May 27, 2011, 11:08:34 AM »
Hi,
I'm new here.  We currently run CMOD 8.4.0 on a z/OS environment and I'd like to upgrade to 8.5 after as we finish our DB2 v9 upgrade.  My question is related to the upgrade documentation as can be seen in the README and other CMOD doc.  OnDemand for z/OS 8.4.0 is a prereq to upgrade to 8.5, but under the ODF topic, the ODF migration tool requires the ODF Administrator Tables be at the 8.4.1 level.  I don't see any information in the Install Guide, PSP, or anywhere else to get me to the 8.4.1 level.  Maybe I need to go to 8.4.1 first?  Also, I don't see anything about these tables changing in any of the 8.4.1 Upgrade/Installation documentation.
I appreciate any input or help locating this info in the documentation. 
Thanks,
cj   

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Re: CMOD 8.5 IS OUT!!!!
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2011, 11:10:16 AM »
we upgraded from8.4.0.3 to 8.5, but we did not have ODF.
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