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B.1 PRODUCT CHANGE STATUS REPORT


This report has two sections:

o  The summary section identifies which PSP levels will be
   loaded from the PSP distribution to DASD. It identifies
   the oldest unapplied product change that is available in
   the PSP distribution and the PSP level in which the change
   was first generally available.  PSP level is specified as
   PSPyymm, where yy is year and mm is month.

o  The detail section lists product change status information
   for each licensed product.  Each product has its own
   section with a three-letter identifier at the top.  The
   product change status information is listed below the
   identifier with four product changes listed on each line.
   The product change name is first, followed by its status,
   which may be APPLIED, UNAPPLIED, or APPLYING.  The PSP
   level of the product change is last. If a change is
   unapplied and not available on the PSP distribution, it
   will be flagged with asterisks.  Superseded product
   changes are excluded from the report, thus reducing
   unneeded information.

For the purposes of refreshing the PSP libraries, a product
change in the applying status is regarded as unapplied.

The PSP level may be blank for one of several reasons. The
product change may never have been available in a PSP
distribution.  This is true for optional products (ccc0000)
and for prerelease product changes installed using PSP Online
that were never generally available.  Another possibility is
that the product change is one that does not verify through
PSP Online.  In any case, if the product change's PSP level
is blank, that product change is not one of the ones that is
loaded.

The last line for each product is a statement of the oldest
unapplied available product change or the fact that there are
no unapplied available product changes.

An abbreviated sample report is in Figure B-1.

PSPnnnn PRODUCT CHANGE STATUS REPORT RUN DATE: ddmmmyy RUN TIME: 15:21 SUMMARY THERE ARE UNAPPLIED PRODUCT CHANGES THAT ARE NOT AVAILABLE ON THIS TAPE. THEY HAVE BEEN MARKED WITH ASTERISKS (*) PLEASE REFER TO APPENDIX C OF REFRESHING THE CA MICS PRODUCT SUPPORT PROGRAM LIBRARIES FOR CORRECTIVE ACTION. THE OLDEST UNAPPLIED OR APPLYING PRODUCT CHANGE OVER ALL LICENSED PRODUCTS AVAILABLE ON THIS TAPE IS BASnnnn AT THE PSPnnnn LEVEL. THE PSPnnnn AND ALL SUBSEQUENT PSP LEVELS WILL BE LOADED TO DASD. DETAIL THE FOLLOWING REPORT DISPLAYS YOUR COMPLEX'S PRODUCT CHANGE STATUS. THIS INFORMATION IS LISTED BY PRODUCT, WITH FOUR PRODUCT CHANGES DISPLAYED PER LINE. IN EACH DISPLAY THE PRODUCT CHANGE NAME APPEARS FIRST, THE STATUS (APPLIED, UNAPPLIED, APPLYING) IS SECOND, AND THE PSP DATE USED FOR PSP ANALYSIS IS LAST. IN CASES WHERE ANALYSIS IS NOT NEEDED, THE DATE IS BLANK. ASTERISKS INDICATE AN UNAPPLIED PRODUCT CHANGE THAT IS NOT AVAILABLE IN THIS PSP DISTRIBUTION. NOTE THAT SUPERSEDED CHANGES ARE NOT LISTED. -------------------------------------------BAS------------------------------------------------- BASnnnn UNAPPLIED PSPnnnn | BASnnnn UNAPPLIED PSPnnnn | BASnnnn UNAPPLIED PSPnnnn THE OLDEST AVAILABLE UNAPPLIED OR APPLYING PRODUCT CHANGE FOR BAS IS BASnnnn AT THE PSPnnnn PSP LEVEL ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------SMF------------------------------------------------- SMFnnnn APPLIED PSPnnnn THE OLDEST AVAILABLE UNAPPLIED OR APPLYING PRODUCT CHANGE FOR SMF IS SMFnnnn AT THE PSPnnnn PSPLEVEL.


 Figure B-1.  Sample Product Change Status Report (Abbreviated)