gtpm2m09 | Migration Guide: Program Update Tapes |
This publication is written for any IBM Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) customer who has the IBM Transaction Processing Facility Version 4 Release 1 system (referred to as the TPF 4.1 system in the remainder of this publication) installed and needs guidance while applying changes and updates to the TPF 4.1 system. These changes and updates are provided to you in the form of a program update tape (PUT) and may come about as:
You may have highly modified TPF 4.1 systems as compared to the vanilla, or uncustomized, product IBM provides. The information provided in this publication is written for those of you with vanilla, or uncustomized, TPF 4.1 systems. If you have a highly modified TPF 4.1 system, apply changes and updates provided in a PUT based on the modifications you have made to your TPF 4.1 system by using the information provided in this publication.
This information is not intended to replace other publications in the TPF 4.1 library or the APAR response information that accompanies an SPE or an APAR. Rather, this information simply supplements that information. For example, you will continue to find information about prerequisite APARs, modules to be reassembled, solution statements, and so on in the associated APAR response information.
IBM recommends that you make the changes and updates provided in a PUT on a TPF 4.1 test system and validate those changes thoroughly before making the changes and updates to a TPF 4.1 production system.