Did You Know? Mainframe Common Maintenance Procedures

[Gina Burchard]

We document all maintenance procedures in one documentation site. This collection of articles offers comprehensive conceptual and procedural content for all aspects of managing your product maintenance, including:

• Maintenance best practices

• Feature and fix PTFs

• Fix Categories (FIXCAT)

• Package signing management

• Recommended Service (CARS)

• Service Order Online Interface 

• SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval

For conceptual information and procedures, see Mainframe Common Maintenance Procedures.

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[Perry Jones]

Thank you for pointing out the Maintenance Procedures.  It is worth sharing that we also have a set of conversion utilities and procedures in our documentation for anyone who is still running, or not yet running, CA 1 Flexible Storage.

Link here: Conversion Utilities

• DFSMSrmm Conversion to  CA 1
• ZARA Conversion to  CA 1
• Control/T Conversion to CA 1
• TLMS  Conversion to CA 1

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Perry L Jones
Product Manager CA 1 Flexible Storage
email: [e-mail]
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[Gina Burchard]

Thanks, Perry. This is a standard announcement created by MSD tech docs. We
are supposed to do one every month. I have not always been able to do it,
because our Performance and Storage doc sets doo not have all the content
they are supposed to.

Gina Burchard
Staff Technical Writer | Mainframe Software Division
Broadcom

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> Original Message:
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> Subject: Did You Know? Mainframe Common Maintenance Procedures
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> We document all maintenance procedures in one documentation site. This
> collection of articles offers comprehensive conceptual and procedural
> content for all aspects of managing your product maintenance, including:
>
> -
>
> Maintenance best practices
> -
>
> Feature and fix PTFs
> -
>
> Fix Categories (FIXCAT)
> -
>
> Package signing management
> -
>
> Recommended Service (CARS)
> -
>
> Service Order Online Interface
> -
>
> SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval
>
> For conceptual information and procedures, see Mainframe Common
> Maintenance Procedures
> <https: techdocs.broadcom.com us en ca-mainframe-software traditional-management mainframe-common-maintenance-procedures 1-0.html>
> .
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