Are the CA SYSVIEW modules GSVXSVC, GSVXAAST and CAIXNM4$ downward compatible?

Products

• CIS
• COMMON SERVICES FOR Z/OS
• 90S SERVICES
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR DB2 FOR Z/OS
• COMMON PRODUCT SERVICES COMPONENT
• Common Services
• Datacom/AD
• CA ECOMETER SERVER COMPONENT FOC
• Easytrieve Report Generator for Common Services
• INFOCAI MAINTENANCE
• IPC
• UNICENTER JCLCHECK COMMON COMPONENT
• Mainframe VM Product Manager
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• CA ON DEMAND PORTAL
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• WEB ADMINISTRATOR FOR TOP SECRET
• Xpertware
• Compress Data Compression for MVS
• Compress Data Compression for Fujitsu
• Cross Enterprise Application Performance Management (APM)
• SYSVIEW Performance Management
• NXBRIDGE - SYSVIEW/ENDEVOR

Issue/Introduction

Description

Clients who upgrade CA SYSVIEW need a fall-back procedure if there are problems, and ask whether they can fall back to the previous release after the upgrade without having to perform an IPL.

Because the CA SYSVIEW modules GSVXSVC, GSVXAAST, and CAIXNM4$ reside in the LPA - as directed in the Installation Guide - they cannot be backed out without an IPL.

Solution

The three CA SYSVIEW modules GSVXSVC, GSVXAAST, and CAIXNM4$ are in fact downward compatible so you may keep the upgraded versions in the LPA while still falling back to the previous release of CA SYSVIEW. Therefore no IPL is necessary because of these modules.

Environment

Release: FAQSO.00200-11.6-SYSVIEW-Performance Management
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