Upgrading and Reverting from ESP 11.4 to 12.0

Products

• ESP Workload Automation

Issue/Introduction

Three upgrading scenarios:

Upgrading from 11.4 to 12.0.
Upgrading from 12.0 INC to 12.0.00 by applying all PTFs released for 12.0 INC  (Most commonly used)
Upgrading from 12.0 INC to 12.0.00 by using the released PAX for the complete release

Environment

Release : 12.0
Component : ESP WORKLOAD AUTOMATION

Cause

This is only information provided to give customer more knowledge.

Resolution

Upgrading from 12.0 INC to 12.0.00 by applying all PTFs for 12.0 INC
Use the flat file that contains all the PTFs released for 12.0 INC.

Follow these steps:
1. Visit the Broadcom Support website.
2. Locate the ESP Workload Automation product download page.
3. Locate and download the ESP PTF r12 incremental to ESP r12.0 0000 ESP12INC00PTFS.zip file.
4. Extract and FTP the content of the .zip file in binary mode to a sequential mainframe file.
5. Use the following JCL to receive the PTFs in the flat file:

//RECVAPP  EXEC SMPECOM                                    
//SMPPTFIN DD DSN=ESPC0INC.PTFS,DISP=SHR    
//SMPCSI   DD DSN=ESP.CSI,DISP=SHR        
//SMPHOLD  DD DUMMY                                        
//SMPCNTL  DD *                                            
  SET BOUNDARY(GLOBAL) .                                    
  RECEIVE SYSMODS             /* RECEIVE ALL SYSMODS */    
          LIST.                                            
//

 

Reverting
If you revert from Version 12.0 back to Release 11.4, use PARM=RELOAD when you start ESP as version 11.4.