6. MAINTENANCE › 6.1 Maintenance Policies

6.1 Maintenance Policies

The following maintenance policies are recommended for timely
support of VCC.

    o  You should apply distributed maintenance within 120
       days of receipt.

    o  We distribute product changes on magnetic tapes.  Each
       product change provides a complete description of the
       problem it is fixing, explains how the problem is
       fixed, gives instructions on how to apply the fix, and
       lists the fix in IEBUPDTE format.

    o  Occasionally, large development efforts will result
       in a new release.  This new release will be
       distributed as a COMPLETE REPLACEMENT for the existing
       VCC product version.  It will have incorporated into
       it all maintenance that has been made available
       through the date of the new release.

    o  Integration of maintenance and user modifications is
       your responsibility.

    o  Do not resequence any provided source code, macro, or
       JCL members.  All maintenance is distributed for these
       members according to the statement sequence numbers
       maintained by the CA MICS Product Support Group.