One or more maintenance newsletters for your IOF/TSO system are attached. IOF maintenence may include AMASPZAP patches, and/or source or text updates. AMASPZAP PATCHES Patches must to be applied to IOF load modules. The NAME statement for each AMASPZAP patch references a distributed base module name, such as BAST7E0M. The patch should be applied to this base distribution module so that it will be picked up by any future IOF gen performed. The M53ZAP job in the IOF install library provides the necessary JCL to apply the patch to the distributed "BAS" module. After the patch has been applied to the "BAS" module. You can then run the M13GEN and M32COPY jobs from the install library to incorporate the patch into the production system modules. You may prefer to patch the applicable link list or LPA load module directly instead of running M13GEN and M32COPY. To do this, first patch the "BAS" module as described above. Then change the NAME statement(s) to point to the correct production load module name(s) and patch the appropriate link list or LPA library. The corresponding load module names are: Distributed Module Link/LPA module Description ---------------------------------------------------------------- BASTvv0M IOFTvvxM Main IOF module BASTvv0A IOFTvvxA Auxiliary Module BASTvv0U IOFTvvxU User Options Module BASTvv0P IOFTvvxP Panel Module where "vv" is your IOF version and "x" is your local generation level. When in doubt about your current version, enter the "VERSION" command from any IOF panel to determine the correct "vv" and "x" values. The response from the "VERSION" command will be a short message in the upper right corner, such as "VER7E.1". This provides the "vv" and "x" values. In the example, "7E" is the "vv" and "1" is the "x". Thus the load modules would be IOFT7E1M, IOFT7E1A, IOFT7E1U, and IOFT7E1P. SOURCE or TEXT UPDATES IOF 7E has a new system for applying updates to the SOURCE, HELP, CLIST and other text data sets. To apply updates, first determine your current IOF version as described above. Copy the update fix to the IOF UPDATES library at the appropriate level. Use the IOF fix number as the member name. For example, if you are running version 7E1, your IOF prefix is IOFGEN, then fix number T7E9876 should be copied into: 'IOFGEN.IOFT7E1.UPDATES(T7E9876)' To apply the fix, go to ISPF Option 6. Assuming your IOF prefix is IOFGEN, enter: EX 'IOFGEN.IOFT7E1.INSTALL(VFIX)' Respond to the prompts to apply the fix to your IOF level 1 and optionally your IOF level 0 data set(s).