Installing VSE using IBM's Fast Service Upgrade. (Product Information)

Enterprise Systems Journal,  March, 1998  by Miller, Gregg

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IBM's Fast Service Upgrade (FSU) procedure is intended to facilitate upgrading a VSE system to VSE/ESA version 2 release 2. The new version includes tools for making the system ready for the year 2000. FSU works on systems running VSE/ESA V1R3 or higher. It creates a new IJSYSRS.SYSLIB to update libraries PRD1.BASE, PRD1.MACLIB and PRD2.GEN1 to move start-up customization from the old system to the new one.

Optional products, VSAM catalog structure, VTAM major node definitions and other system components are not affected by FSU. FSU changes the production system, so backups of the existing ...

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