Retrieve all maintenance for Common Services for z/OS r15.0

Products

• CIS
• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
• 90S SERVICES
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR DB2 FOR Z/OS
• COMMON PRODUCT SERVICES COMPONENT
• Common Services
• CA ECOMETER SERVER COMPONENT FOC
• Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• INFOCAI MAINTENANCE
• IPC
• UNICENTER JCLCHECK COMMON COMPONENT
• LDAP SERVER FOR Z/OS
• Mainframe VM Product Manager
• CHORUS SOFTWARE MANAGER
• CA ON DEMAND PORTAL
• CA Service Desk Manager - Unified Self Service
• PAM CLIENT FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• MAINFRAME CONNECTOR FOR LINUX ON MAINFRAME
• GRAPHICAL MANAGEMENT INTERFACE
• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET
• Xpertware
• MF - MISC OLD CODES
• SERVICE ASSURE
• GENERIC UNISERVICE FOR CICS
• GENERIC UNISERVICE II
• Output Management Web Viewer

Issue/Introduction

We have installed Common Services r15.0.   How can we retrieve all maintenance for this release since it went GA in January 2019? 

Environment

Release : 15.0

Component : CCS390 - CA COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS

Cause

Installed new release and would like to apply all maintenance. 

Resolution

To find and retrieve all maintenance for release 15.0 follow these steps:

• Login to support.broadcom.com
• From the home page, choose Mainframe Software
• On the next display, choose Product Downloads
• Enter Common Services in the search box
  • Click on Common Services in the box that appears below and to the right of the large search box       
• Common Services for z/OS will appear on the next page but the choice defaults to Product Download
  • Solution Download appears to the right of the default, click on Solution Download
• The supported releases will appear to the right of the product name, click on 15.0
• The maintenance for r15.0 will appear in descending order; the latest fix listed first
• To retrieve all maintenance for the release, limit the date in the calendar to the right to January 1, 2019
  • This will include only the maintenance for the r15.0 BASE components
  • Leaving the calendar blank will also include the maintenance for the components found in the LEGACY pax file
  • The LEGACY components are stabilized with little or no change since r14.0 of Common Services  
• Click on Add All to Cart above the calendar 
  • The number of fixes available will appear in the red box next to the literal CART at the top of the page
• Click on the literal CART 
• The CART Download Page appears
• Scroll to the end of the list of included maintenance for the BASE components
  • Other products, such as Easytrieve and Datacom are also included in the Product Downloads 
  • Turn off the maintenance for these products by moving the button to include the "complete package" to the left 
  • Scroll to the bottom
  • Click on Checkout
• This creates a zip download request of the cart 
  • The download choices of browser or ftp appear to the the far right