gtpm2m07 | Migration Guide: Program Update Tapes |
This book, which should be used as a planning guide and is subject to change, is written for any IBM Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) customer who has the TPF 4.1 system 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:
This information is not intended to replace other books 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.
In this book, abbreviations are often used instead of spelled-out terms. Every term is spelled out at first mention followed by the all-caps abbreviation enclosed in parentheses; for example, Systems Network Architecture (SNA). Abbreviations are defined again at various intervals throughout the book. In addition, the majority of abbreviations and their definitions are listed in the master glossary in the TPF Library Guide.
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Readers of this book should have an in-depth knowledge of the TPF system as well as the configuration and procedures of their own complex.
This book is organized by chapter, and includes an appendix and index:
The TPF library uses the following conventions:
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italic |
Used for important words and phrases. For example:
Used to represent variable information. For example:
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bold | Used to represent text that you type. For example:
Used to represent variable information in C language. For example:
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monospaced | Used for messages and information that displays on a screen. For
example:
PROCESSING COMPLETED Used for C language functions. For example: maskc Used for examples. For example: maskc(MASKC_ENABLE, MASKC_IO); |
bold italic | Used for emphasis. For example:
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Bold underscore | Used to indicate the default in a list of options. For
example:
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Vertical bar | | Used to separate options in a list. (Also referred to as the OR
symbol.) For example:
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CAPital LETters | Used to indicate valid abbreviations for keywords. For
example:
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Scale | Used to indicate the column location of input. The scale begins at
column position 1. The plus sign (+) represents increments of 5
and the numerals represent increments of 10 on the scale. The first
plus sign (+) represents column position 5; numeral 1 shows column
position 10; numeral 2 shows column position 20 and so on. The
following example shows the required text and column position for the image
clear card.
|...+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....+....6....+....7... LOADER IMAGE CLEAR Notes:
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