Re: 6.1 - READY?

[Rich Loeber <rich@xxxxxxxxx>]

   Speaking from a vendor's perspective, Mark Waterbury had the right idea in
   an earlier post.  It is a fact of life that vendors do have to support
   multiple OS release levels and objects that don't pass muster with IBM's
   tool may, in fact, be not in use for a 6.1 customer.

   In all cases with third party software, check with the vendor.  If the
   vendor tells you that their code is 6.1 compliant, then why not just
   believe them.

   Rich Loeber
   Kisco Information Systems
   http://www.kisco.com

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   Pete Massiello wrote:

 Rob,

         You are right, but how are we the community to know if this is a
 program that isn't required or one that is required just in some certain
 instances (like every time the OS release changes).  I think vendors should
 clean up their crap and not leave a mess behind, otherwise all the System
 Admins are scratching their heads wondering how I have a 6.1 compliant
 version with programs that have no observability or creation data.

 Pete

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 As others have pointed out, some vendor programs are of the "not used
 anymore" variety.  For example, Turnover had 3 modes:  5250, original C/S,
 and WDSC.  original C/S is not ported over to V6R1 as people have migrated
 over to WDSC.  They don't remove those programs automatically but will
 tell you that you can delete programs with certain naming conventions.  (I
 always verified with the Last Used date from DSPOBJD.)
 Other vendors may have the same issues and handle it the same.  I've even
 heard of "reference" objects that aren't called but only used for "set the
 authority on this new program like this one reference program" support.

 Rob Berendt