IIOP Connect for TPF—Keeping Current
Sue Zee Wolfsie, IBM TPF Development, and Fay Casatuta and Laura Underhill, IBM TPF ID Core Team
Last year we were excited to announce the general availability of the newest addition to the TPF family of
products: IIOP Connect for TPF. Along with that we provided a central location for information related to IIOP Connect for
TPF and also introduced a new method of delivering books through the IIOP Connect for TPF Web page. You can
access the IIOP Connect for TPF Web page through the TPF Web site at:
http://www.ibm.com/tpf/pages/prod_iio.htm
This Web page has information for the general public and for IIOP Connect for TPF customers.
We are now very pleased to tell you about an enhancement that we made generally available this past year for
the delivery of maintenance for IIOP Connect for TPF. The maintenance is delivered through our Web page, which
is accessible by IIOP Connect for TPF customers. This Web page contains detailed instructions for downloading
and applying the maintenance as well as a date stamp to let you know the last time maintenance was posted.
The maintenance is packaged in a tar file and contains all the required files to install the latest version of IIOP
Connect for TPF. The tar file also includes the full source of any files changed to date. Maintenance is cumulative;
for example, it is not granular by APAR.
What's different? There are no program update tapes (PUTs) for IIOP Connect for TPF. Rather than
receiving regularly scheduled PUTs, you can download maintenance as it becomes available. IBMLink or ServiceLink will
not contain the maintenance.
What's the same? Problems are still opened and closed in IBMLink or ServiceLink, so opening, closing,
notifying, and searching for problems remains the same.
We have also made changes to how we will distribute the maintenance updates in the
IIOP Connect for TPF Reference (SH31-0188). Each time the maintenance for an APAR or a set of APARs is made available to you, an
updated version of the IIOP Connect for TPF
Reference will also be available immediately so that you always have a
current copy of the book at your disposal. The book will be available immediately as a Portable Document Format (PDF)
file on our Web page.
You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader software to print and view the PDF file. This software is available for free
from the Adobe Web site at:
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html
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