Display of the latest CARS Level

Products

• Datacom
• DATACOM - AD

Issue/Introduction

Our company maintenance strategy is to follow Broadcom Recommended Service .

Is it possible to display or locate the CARS level of an given system, for example Datacom/DB? If not, will it be possible to display it at MUF startup information? 

Environment

Datacom 

Resolution

It's not possible to show the highest CARS level for a MUF region from the MUF itself, as there is no reference to the CARS level in the Datacom load modules.

The CARS info is only available in the SMP/E environment used to receive/apply the PTFs.

There are two ways to find out which is the Broadcom Recommended Service (CA RS) level of a PFT currently received/applied:

1) run a SMP/E LIST report for that PTF:
//LISTSMPE EXEC PGM=GIMSMP,PARM='CSI=your.CSI.dataset',
// REGION=0M
//SMPHOLD DD DUMMY
//SMPPTFIN DD DUMMY
//SMPCNTL DD *
SET BOUNDARY(CAIT0).
LIST SYSMOD(LUnnnnn).
/*

2) check the CARS PDF file reports on the Broadcom site here in Recommended Service for z/OS .

If you need to know which PTFs you applied from a specific CARS level, you can run a different SMP/E report:
//SMPCNTL DD *
SET BOUNDARY(CAIT0).
LIST SYSMODS SOURCEID(CARnnnn).
/*