CA Products - Compatibilities with IBM PTFs OA55233/UA96475

Products

• Deliver
• View

Issue/Introduction

Please outline the compatibilities with IBM PTFs OA55233/UA96475, regarding the parameters OSPROTECT and PSASTAK, and the below listed CA products:

CA-1    v14.0
CA-7  v11
CA-Common Services  v14.1+
JCLCheck  v12.0
Librarian  v4.4(1309)
OPS/MVS  v13.0
CA-View   v12.2
PDSMAN  v7.7+
MIM   v12.5
Sysview  v15(v14.2)
Roscoe  v6+
 

Environment

Release : 12.2

Component : CA View

Resolution

Regarding compatibilities with IBM PTFs OA55233/UA96475, and OSPROTECT and PSASTAK, here are the statuses of the following list of CA products:

. CA 1 Tape Management:
. . Per CA Article ID 111750:
. . . "There is actually no reporting problems in our Database for CA products and the activation of OSPROTECT parameter".

. CA 7
. . Per CA Article ID 141929:
. . . "CA 7 does not use PSASTAK so it is not affected by IBM PTF UA96475".

. CA Common Services v14.1:
. . Per CA Article ID 108098:
. . . "There are no Common Services components that reference or use either the OSPROTECT parm or the PSASTAK field, so there is no impact".

. CA JCLCheck
. . Per CA Article ID 141934:
. . . "CA JCLCheck does not use PSASTAK and is not affected by IBM PTF UA96475".

. CA Librarian
. . Per CA Article ID 117802:
. . . "There is no impact. CA Librarian does not reference PSASTAK."

. CA OPS/MVS
. . Per CA Article ID 115395:
. . . "OPS/MVS 12.3 does not reference PSASTAK."
. . . Note: Neither OPS/MVS 13.0 nor 13.5 reference PSASTAK.

. CA View/Deliver 12.2:
. . Per CA Article ID 115490:
. . . "There are no product components that will be affected by the APAR. Product is considered certified".

. CA PDSMAN
. . Per CA Article ID 128541:
. . . "There are no known issues with CA PDSMAN or any of its components being affected by OSPROTECT".

. CA Sysview V15:
. . Per CA Article ID 139359:
. . . "There is no impact to CA SYSVIEW from the IBM Maintenance, PTF UA96475, for the Spectra Meltdown Security Vulnerability."
. . Per CA Article ID 143755:
. . . "SYSVIEW has not had any issues with OSPROTECT since the addition at z/OS 2.2".

. CA MIM v12.5
. . There are no known issues, as confirmed by Sustaining Engineering.

. CA ROSCOE
. . Per CA Article ID 118852:
. . . "CA Roscoe does not refer to the PSASTAK field."