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Compatibility With Release 3.5

This section provides a summary of information to consider if you are upgrading from CA VM:Backup Release 3.5.

This section contains the following topics:

Jobs On Hold

DASDtape Resource Pool

TRACETBL Startup Option

Jobs On Hold

Any jobs on hold from the previous release will cause a JIN006 abend at the first initialization of release 3.6. Any jobs on hold from the previous release with very high catalog or tape retention will cause a PRG009 abend or the immediate expiration of tapes that are created. Clean up all job activity on 3.5 before the upgrade to resolve these problems.

DASDtape Resource Pool

Defining more than one DASDtape resource pool to a tape disk will cause message 2017E to display and initialization to fail at the first initialization of release 3.6. Define one DASDtape resource pool for each tape disk before the upgrade to resolve this problem.

TRACETBL Startup Option

The TRACETBL startup option that was delivered as CA VM:Backup release 3.5 PTF RO63868 is not supported in release 3.6. If TRACETBL is specified as a startup option, the first initialization of release 3.6 fails and the message “VMBBEG0120E TRACETBL cannot be used with VMBSYS.” displays.

To resolve this problem, remove the TRACETBL startup option on the Server Startup Command in the VMSERVER NAMES file for CA VM:Backup on VMANAGER before the upgrade.