Re: Maintaining current BMR's

["Chick Doe" <Cdoe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

you have my sympathy. we have not been able to determine how to handle the bmr 
process. and ssa just does not want to acknowledge the problem. furthermore 
trying to adapt a policy of applying the cum tapes doesn't work either. when 
you have a problem you order a bmr and install it. when the next cum package is 
distributed it may or may not include the individual bmr's that you have 
installed, if it does not, then you have to reorder the bmr and reapply it. 
(don't just reapply the original bmr. while it may not be on the cum package, 
some of the objects included in the bmr distribution may have been updated by 
the cum package. you need to reorder the bmr).


we had serious problems with the bpcs cfg module and probably had a backlog of 
25 or so individual bmr's that needed to be applied. to have ordered them and 
applied them individually would have been impossible. ssa offer to cut us a 
special tape that consolidated all of these individual bmr's into one 
distribution. this helped, but you have to get them to do it!

>>> <RickCarter@holley.com> 12/30 1:05 PM >>>
AS400 Version 6.1  Mixmode

Does anyone have any break through ideas on how to best stay on top of the
BMR issue with SSA.  For instance, on 12/29/99 the most recent passed BMR's
for version 6.1 included roughly 194 BMR's for the AS400.  How in the world
does one monitor and keep the most current mods applied to their system.
At this point, we typically don't worry about a fix until we encounter the
problem but with all the Y2k issues, etc, I've been monitoring OGS more
closely and it's scary to see this many BMR's for one time period.  Is
there a proper way to deal with this other than by trial and error or
better yet run and fix .

Thanks


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