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ASUM70PR 25.150 ASUM70PR created PCTCPUBY GT 100%, final fix?

ASUM70PR 25.150 ASUM70PR now supports INTERVAL/CECINTRV=SHIFT.

ADOCITRM 25.149 Doc. Maps ITRM dataset names to MXG name.

ADOCDB2 25.148 Doc. How to create DB2ACCTB/DB2ACCTP in separate DDs.

ANALRMFR 25.146 ERROR: NO DATASETS TO LOOKUP correction.

TYPERMFV 25.145 RMF III dataset ZRBLCP missing obs for many LPARs.

UPCMEMDZ 25.144 ASCII utility to determine memory available to MXG.

TYPE71 25.143 SWAPrates were set missing if zero, now can be zero.

VMXGINIT 25.143 New MXGMISS macro variable changes TYPE71 SWAPrates.

Major enhancements added in MXG 25.06.
TYPE30 25.116 MXG 25.05, negative EXECTM, INTRVLTM, GMTOFF30 wrong.

TYPE110 25.041 Support for CICS/TS 3.2 (INCOMPATIBLE), Uncompressed.

TYPEBTE 25.107 Support for CA Brightstor Tape Encryption SMF.

TYPE80A 25.131 Support for CRL PUBLISH and SET UID RACFEVNT 52, 79.

TYPEFERT 25.133 Support for Williams Data FERRET product user SMF.

TYPECLAR 25.130 Support for Clarion Disk Array flat files.

TYPE119 25.119 SMF 119 from z/OS 1.8 caused INVALID DATA messages.

TYPESYNC 25.117 INVALID ARGUMENT due to incorrect HEX4/HEX3 formats.

ASUMUOW 25.121 Enhanced to keep each CICS segment response time.

ASUMHSM 25.113 HSM Summary enhanced with "HSM COMPLEX" HSMPLEX.

IHDRIDMS 25.112 CA IDMS PerfMon support enhanced with "IHDR" exit.

TYPENMON 25.110 Support for DISKBUSYn for all NMON Disk Monitoring.

TYPERACF 25.134 Support for IRRDBU00 record types 0560,0561,0562.

TYPE80A 25.131 Support for TOP SECRET (INCOMPAT) '90'x,'00'x VRSN.

MXG Version 25.05, dated Jun 7, 2007.
Major enhancements added in MXG 25.05.
TYPEITRF 25.103 Support for IBM OMEGAMON TRF ITRF V550 and V560.

TYPENMON 25.104 Full support for NMON, Nigel's Monitor for AIX/unix.

TYPEDB2 25.090 Support for PK37354 SMF 101 Subtype 4 in DB2 9.

TYPEDB2 25.097 Variable THREADTY blank if non-DDF transaction.

TYPE30 25.089 GMTOFF30 calculation corrections and problems.

CONFIGV9 25.101 MEMLEAVE=10M SORTBLOCKMODE now set in CONFIGV9

UTILBLDP 25.098 %UTILBLDP(BUILDPDB=JES3 ... enhancement.
Major enhancements added in MXG 25.04.
TYPE21 25.083 Fix for support for APAR OA20077 Device Bytes TYPE21.

TYPEXAM 25.082 Support for XAM Release 3.6, many new data.

TYPENMON 25.073 Support for LPAR and IOADAPTR Nigel's NMON data.

SYSLOG 25.070 Support for SYSLOG file enhanced, all records output.

TYPENDM 25.081 Support for NDM-CD type 'NM' records creates NDMNM.

DALYTAPE 25.072 Sample tape reports from STC VTS SMF + MXGTMNT.

TYPERMFV 25.079 ZRBLCP dataset had only first LPARs observations.

TYPEDB2 25.064 Several QISE variables were wrong.

TYPEDB2 25.075 QBGL variables in DB2 V8.1 now supported, were wrong.

TYPETMS5 25.084 FILSEQ in TMS.DSNBRECD could be wrong, mult-vol-file.

ANALDB2R 25.068 SQL Text QW0141TX was not printed, coding error.

UTILBLDP 25.071 Products that need deaccumulation now protected.

UTILBLDP 25.065 Default list of ASUMxxx to be included, MXGINCL=.

VMXGRMFI 25.069 Service Class Names can be "wild-carded"

VMXGUSE 25.067 Revised to invoke _STY70; UTILBLDP recommended.

FORMATS 25.063 Additional SWAP reason codes added to $MG079SR.

Doc 25.078 List of MXG-issued USER ABEND values & source member.

Major enhancements added in MXG 25.03.

CONFIGV8 25.037 SORTEQUALS should NOT have been in CONFIGV8, V9 only.

TYPE119 25.035 Support for SMF 119 for z/OS 1.8 (INCOMPATIBLE).

TYPE1415 25.047 Support for APAR OA19502, SMF14KET Key Exchange Time

TYPE21 25.040 Support for APAR OA20077, uncompress read/write bytes

TYPEAIXT 25.039 Support for AIX Tapas-C performance data files.

TYPESAMS 25.055 Support for SAMS objects 2151,2226,2229 and 2231.

TYPETDS 25.052 Support for TDSLink Version 630 ZCOST datasets.

TYPECSM 25.050 Support for CrossSysplexManager user SMF record.

TYPSCOCR 25.034 Support for CopyCross (now VTF Mainframe 2.1.0) SMF.

VMXGDUR 25.044 Interval= QUARTER, SEMIANN, ANNUAL now supported.

TYPEHSM 25.042 Process HSM with different SMF IDs/different SYSTEMs.

ASUMTAPE 25.040 Uncompress read/write SMF21DBR/DBW kept in ASUMTAPE.

ASUMUOW 25.054 QWACSPCP,QWACTRET added to PDB.ASUMUOW for OTE.

ASUMCEC 25.053 PDB.ASUMCEC, PCTCPUBY GT 100%, DURATM LT CECINTRV.

BLDSMPDB 25.048 Corrections to BLDSMPDB, new SORTEDBY= option.
Major enhancements added in MXG 25.02.
MXG 25.02 was created to protect sites who set the NOSORTEQUALS

option (i.e., changed the SORTEQUALS default). NOSORTEQUALS causes

invalid data in ASUM70PR-built datasets.
CONFIGV9 25.028 OPTION NOSORTEQUALS caused errors in ASUM70PR.

VMXG70PR 25.028 OPTION NOSORTEQUALS caused errors in ASUM70PR.

Other New Support and corrections added in MXG 25.02:
ASMTAPEE 25.033 Support for ASMTAPEE ML-40 assembly under z/OS 1.8.

ANALRMFR 25.032 IRD corrections to RMF reports.

TYPE42DS 25.030 TYPE42DS had carried-forward IOCOUNT and other vars.

TYPE70 25.028 IORATEn per-engine I/Os corrected for IRD.

VMXGPRAL 25.028 Print All utility now compares all datasets in LIBs.

UCOMPSOE 25.028 Utility to compare SORTEQUALS and NOSORTEQUALS output

ANALFIOE 25.026 Divide by zero message protected.
Major enhancements added in MXG 25.01.
The MXG 24.24 Annual Version is VERY solid, with only these three

relatively minor corrections:

TYPENTSM 25.015 INCOMPAT MXG CHANGE for NTSM WEEKly requires action.

TYPE7072 25.013 PCTMVSBY in PDB.TYPE70PR was wrong if IRD was active.

ASUM70PR 25.001 NRICFCPU,NRIFLCPU were wrong if you have more than 1.
Other New Support and corrections added in MXG 25.01:
TYPEIMS7 25.006 Support for IMS Version 10 (INCOMPATIBLE) IMS log.

TYPEBVIR 25.011A Support for TS7700 SMF records.

TYPE7 25.025 Support for APAR OA19453 for 4-byte LOSTRECS count.

TYPE74 25.003 NREXPOSR was wrong for HyperPAV devices.

IMACICMR 25.007 Optional CICS CMRDATA, CMDUDATA/CMDDBCCP reversed.

IMACICOB 25.008 Optional CICS OMDBDB2LN now spelled as OMBDB2LN.

IMACICOM 25.008 Optional CICS OMMLN now spelled as OMMQLN.

Please read CHANGESS for the complete list of major enhancements.

See member NEWSLTRS or the Newsletters frame at www.mxg.com for

current MXG Technical Notes that used to be in CHANGES.

All of these enhancements are described in the Change Log, below.
SAS Version requirement information:
MXG 22.08 or later is REQUIRED for SAS V9.1.2 or V9.1.3; see

"Major Enhancements in MXG 22.08" in CHANGES, above, for the major

items, then search Newsletters for V9 for all of the minor items.
MXG executes under SAS V8.2 and SAS V9.1.3, but MXG is no longer

supported under SAS V6. The "PDB" libraries written to by MXG

must have been created by V8/V9 (i.e, if ENGINE=V6 is shown in the

PROC CONTENTS output, you must convert that data library to the

current ENGINE=BASE by PROC COPYing it under SAS V8 or V9.
For SAS V9.1.3 on z/OS with Service Pack 4:

There are no reported errors, and MXG's CONFIGV9 now specifies

V9SEQ instead of V6SEQ. As V6SEQ does not support long length

character variables, it should not be used.

SAS V9.1.3 with current Service Pack 4 is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED.
For (back-level!) SAS V9.1 or V9.1.2 on z/OS:

SN-013514 is REQUIRED to be able to read datasets that were

created by V6SEQ (tape) engine.

SN-012437 is REQUIRED to prevent creation of corrupt/unreadable

datasets with tape engines V7SEQ, V8SEQ, or V9SEQ.

Both fixes ARE included in SAS V9.1.3, but V9.1 or 9.1.2 is NOT

SAFE without those two hot fixes, and if you do NOT have those

two fixes on 9.1 or 9.1.2, you MUST set V6SEQ in CONFIGV9.

With MXG 23.02 or later, V9SEQ is the default sequential engine

specified in CONFIGV9, but if you are back at SAS V9.1 or V9.1.2

you MUST install the two hot fixes listed above.
For SAS Version 8.2, HotFix Bundle 82BX08 (or later) is required

to be completely safe. No earlier Version 8's were supported.

Sequential Engine Status:

V9SEQ is fixed in V9.1.3; it is now the default in CONFIGV9.

V8SEQ was always safe under SAS V8.2, but it wasted CPU time

by always compressing when writing in tape format.

V6SEQ, if used under V9.1.2, requires SN-013514, but V6SEQ

should no longer be used, as it does not support long

length variables.
MXG New-Version QA tests are executed on z/OS with SAS V9.1.3 and

V8.2, and on Windows XP with SAS V9.1.3. But previous QA tests

have been run with all SAS releases on z/OS, SAS V8.2 and V9.1 on

Linux RH8 on Intel, with V9.1 on Solaris v2.8 on Model V880, and

V9.1 on HP-UX v11.11 model rp5470, confirming full compatibility.

MXG should execute under SAS V9.1.3 or V8.2 on every possible SAS

platform without errors! Each new MXG version is also tested with

the SAS ITSV/ITRM product by the ITRM developers.

Availability dates for the IBM products and MXG version required for

the processing of that product's data records:

Availability MXG Version

Product Name Date Required

MVS/ESA 4.1 Oct 26, 1990 8.8

MVS/ESA 4.2 Mar 29, 1991 9.9

MVS/ESA 4.2.2 Aug 15, 1991 9.9

MVS/ESA 4.3 Mar 23, 1993 10.10

MVS/ESA 5.1.0 - compatibility Jun 24, 1994 12.02

MVS/ESA 5.1.0 - Goal Mode May 3, 1995 13.01

MVS/ESA 5.2.0 Jun 15, 1995 13.05

MVS/ESA 5.2.2 Oct 19, 1995 13.09

OS/390 1.1.0 Feb 22, 1996 14.01

OS/390 1.2.0 Sep 30, 1996 14.05

OS/390 1.3.0 Compatibility Mode Mar 28, 1997 14.14

OS/390 1.3.0 WLM Goal Mode Mar 28, 1997 15.02

OS/390 2.4.0 Sep 28, 1997 15.06

OS/390 2.5.0 Feb 24, 1998 15.06

OS/390 2.6.0 Sep 24, 1998 16.04

OS/390 2.7.0 Mar 26, 1999 16.09

OS/390 2.7.0 APAR OW41318 Mar 31, 2000 18.03

OS/390 2.8.0 Aug 24, 1999 16.09

OS/390 2.8.0 FICON/SHARK Aug 24, 1999 17.08

OS/390 2.8.0 APAR OW41317 Mar 31, 2000 18.03

OS/390 2.9.0 Mar 31, 2000 18.03

OS/390 2.10.0 Sep 15, 2000 18.06

OS/390 PAV Oct 24, 2000 18.09

z/OS 1.1 Mar 30, 2001 18.11

z/OS 1.1 on 2064s Mar 30, 2001 19.01

z/OS 1.1 with correct MSU Mar 30, 2001 19.02

z/OS 1.2 Oct 31, 2001 19.04

z/OS 1.1,1.2 APARs to 78 Oct 31, 2001 19.05

z/OS 1.2+ APAR OW52227 Apr 26, 2002 20.02

z/OS 1.3+ APAR OW52227 Apr 26, 2002 20.02

z/OS 1.2 JESNR Z2 MODE Apr 26, 2002 20.03

z/OS 1.3 JESNR Z2 MODE Apr 26, 2002 20.03

z/OS 1.4 Tolerate Sep 27, 2002 20.03

z/OS 1.4 Support Sep 27, 2002 20.06

z/OS 1.4 Over 16 CPUs/LPARs May 29, 2003 21.02

z/OS 1.4 DFSMS/rmm, RACF Aug 29, 2003 21.04

z/OS 1.5 Mar 31, 2004 21.21

z/OS IRD ASUM70PR/ASUMCEC Sep 22, 2003 *24.10

z/OS IRD TYPE70PR Mar 11, 2004 *24.10

z/OS IRD TYPE70,RMFINTRV Mar 22, 2002 *24.10

z/OS 1.6 - No IFAs Sep 30, 2004 *22.09

z/OS 1.6 - With IFAs Sep 30, 2004 *22.11

z/OS 1.7 (COMPATIBLE CHANGES) Sep 30, 2005 *24.10

z/OS 1.7 (SPLIT70 CORRECTION) Sep 30, 2005 *24.10

z/OS IFA data in RMF 79s Sep 30, 2005 23.10

z/OS 1.8 - ASMTAPEE assembly Sep 30, 2005 *25.03

z/OS 1.8 - SMF 119 INCOMPAT Sep 30, 2005 *25.06

z990 CPUs - CPUTYPE '2084'x Aug 25, 2003 21.04

z890 CPUs - CPUTYPE '2086'x Jun 24, 2004 22.07

z9 CPUs - CPUTYPE '2094'x Jul 20, 2005 *24.24

z9EC CPUs - CPUTYPE '2094'x:

with 64-bit z/OS - no change required *24.24

with 32-bit z/OS only: Aug 26, 2006 24.06

z9BC CPUs - CPUTYPE '2096'x:

with 64-bit z/OS - no change required 24.01

with 32-bit z/OS only: Jul 27, 2006 *24.24

z/OS More than 32 LPARs Jan 30, 2006 *24.24

z/OS SPLIT RMF 70 records Jan 30, 2006 *24.24

z/OS Dupe SYSTEMs in a SYSPLEX Jan 30, 2006 *24.02

z/OS IRD errors corrected May 15, 2006 24.03

z/OS ASUMCEC errors corrected May 15, 2006 *24.24

z/OS ASUM70LP errors corrected Jun 13, 2006 *24.24

z/OS zIIP Processor Support Jun 22, 2006 *24.24

z/OS Dedicated zIIP Support Oct 5, 2007 25.10

z/OS 1.8 (COMPATIBLE CHANGES) Sep 20, 2006 *24.24

z/OS 1.9 (INCOMPAT, 54 CPs) Sep 27, 2007 25.10

CICS/ESA 3.2 Jun 28, 1991 9.9

CICS/ESA 3.3 Mar 28, 1992 10.01

CICS/ESA 4.1 Oct 27, 1994 13.09

CICS/ESA 5.1 aka CICS/TS V1R1 Sep 10, 1996 14.07

CICS-Transaction Server V1R1 Sep 10, 1996 14.07

CICS-TS V1R1 with APAR UN98309 Sep 15, 1997 15.06

CICS-TS V1R2 CICS/TS 1.2 Oct 27, 1997 15.06

CICS-TS V1R3 CICS/TS 1.3 Mar 15, 1999 17.04

CICS-TS for Z/OS Version 2.1 Mar 15, 2001 18.11

CICS-TS for Z/OS Version 2.2 Jan 25, 2002 19.19

CICSTRAN subtype 1 support only *19.19

CICSTRAN subtype 2 completed *19.08

CICS-TS for Z/OS Version 2.3 Dec 19, 2003

Using UTILEXCL to create IMACEXCL: 21.04

Reading un-Excluded CICS with TYPE110, no IMACEXCL:*22.04

CICS-TS for Z/OS Version 3.1 Mar 15, 2005

Using UTILEXCL to create IMACEXCL: 22.13

Reading un-Excluded CICS with TYPE110, no IMACEXCL: 22.22

CICS-TS for Z/OS Version 3.2 Jun 29, 2007 25.03

CICS-TS/3.2 Compressed Records Nov 3, 2007 25.11

DB2 2.3.0 Oct 28, 1991 10.01

DB2 3.1.0 Dec 17, 1993 13.02A

DB2 4.1.0 Tolerate Nov 7, 1995 13.07

DB2 4.1.0 Full support Sep 11, 1996 14.07

DB2 5.1.0 Tolerate Jun 27, 1997 14.14

DB2 5.1.0 Full support Jun 27, 1997 15.02

DB2 6.1.0 initial support Mar 15, 1999 16.09

DB2 6.1.0 all buffer pools Mar 15, 1999 18.01

DB2 6.1.0 parallel DB2 Mar 15, 1999 19.19

DB2 7.1.0 parallel DB2 Mar 31, 2001 19.19

DB2 7.1.0 corrections Mar 31, 2001 20.06

DB2 8.1 Tolerate, no packages Mar 31, 2004 20.20

DB2 8.1 New Data Packages wrong Mar 31, 2004 21.08

DB2 8.1 Support with Packages Mar 31, 2004 23.09*

DB2 8.1 with all zIIP Variables Sep 30, 2006 24.08

DB2 9.1 See Change 25.265. Dec 7, 2007 25.11

DFSMS/MVS 1.1 Mar 13, 1993 11.11

DFSMS/MVS 1.2 Jun 24, 1994 12.02

DFSMS/MVS 1.3 Dec 29, 1995 13.09

DFSMS/MVS 1.4 Sep 28, 1997 15.04

DFSMS/MVS 1.4 HSM Sep 23, 1998 16.04

DFSMS/MVS 1.5 ??? ??, 1999 16.04

DFSORT SMF V1R5 Mar 1, 2006 24.02

MQM 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4 Apr 25, 1996 14.02

MQ Series 1.2.0 May 26, 1998 16.02

MQ Series 2.1.0 Oct 2, 1999 17.07

MQ Series 5.2 Dec 16, 2000 18.10

MQ Series 5.3 Dec 16, 2002 21.05

NETVIEW 3.1 type 37 ??? ??, 1996 14.03

NPM 2.0 Dec 17, 1993 12.03

NPM 2.2 Aug 29, 1994 12.05

NPM 2.3 ??? ??, 1996 15.08

NPM 2.4 Nov 18, 1998 17.01

NPM 2.5 Feb ??, 2000 18.02

NPM 2.6 Nov ??, 2001 19.06

RMDS 2.1, 2.2 Dec 12, 1995 12.12

RMDS 2.3 Jan 31, 2002 19.11

TCP/IP 3.1 Jun 12, 1995 12.12

TCP/IP 3.4 Sep 22, 1998 16.04

WebSphere 5.0 APAR PQ7463 Aug 19, 2003 21.04

WebSphere 6.0 Feb 18, 2006 23.23

DOS/VSE POWER V6.3.0 Dec 19, 1998 16.08

VM/ESA 2.0 Dec 23, 1992 10.04

VM/ESA 2.1 Jun 27, 1993 12.02

VM/ESA 2.2 Nov 22, 1994 12.06

VM/ESA 2.3 Jun 1, 1998 16.08

VM/ESA 2.4 Mar 1, 2001 19.03

z/VM 3.1 Mar 1, 2001 19.03

z/VM 3.1 DATABYTE=0 May 2, 2002 20.02

z/VM 4.2 ?? May 2, 2002 20.02

z/VM 4.4 Jan 22, 2005 22.22

z/VM 5.1 Jan 22, 2005 22.22

z/VM 5.2 Jan 22, 2006 24.01

z/VM 5.3 Jan 22, 2007 25.04

IMS log 4.1 Jul 4, 1994 12.02

IMS log 5.1 Jun 9, 1996 14.05

IMS log 6.1 ??? ?, 199? 20.03

IMS log 7.1 ??? ?, 200? 20.03

IMS log 8.1 May 21, 2003 21.02

IMS log 9.1 Dec ??, 2004 22.08

IMS log 10.0 Feb 27, 2007 25.01

AS400 3.7.0 Nov 1, 1996 15.01

AS400 4.1.0 Dec 30, 1996 15.08

AS400 4.2.0 Apr 27, 1998 16.02

AS400 4.4.0 Sep 27, 1999 17.07

AS400 4.5.0 Jul 27, 2000 18.07

AS400 5.2.0 - Most records Jul 23, 2003 21.03

AS400 5.2.0 - QAPMMIOP Jul 23, 2003 22.04

AS400 5.3.0 Jan 22, 2005 22.22

AS400 5.4.0 Aug 26, 2006 24.06

Note: Asterisk before the version number means the Version number

was changed (to the MXG version required), after an earlier

MXG version was listed as supporting this product release,

usually because an APAR modified the product's data records.

Or a coding error in MXG could be the reason for the change!
Availability dates for non-IBM products and MXG version required:
MXG Version

Product Name Required

Demand Technology

NTSMF Version 1 Beta 14.11

NTSMF Version 2.0 15.05

NTSMF Version 2.1 15.06

NTSMF Version 2.2 16.04

NTSMF Version 2.3 17.10

NTSMF 2.4.4 Aug 9, 2002 20.04

NTSMF 2.4.5 INCOMPAT Apr 1, 2003 21.02

NTSMF 2.4.7 Sep 30, 2004 22.08

Landmark

The Monitor for DB2 Version 2 13.06

The Monitor for DB2 Version 3.0 16.02

The Monitor for DB2 Version 3.1 20.04

The Monitor for DB2 Version 4.0 22.10

The Monitor for CICS/ESA 1.2 - 12.12

The Monitor for CICS/ESA 1.3 - 15.01

The Monitor for CICS/ESA 2.0 - 15.06

The Monitor for CICS TCE 2.1 - 20.04

The Monitor for CICS TCE 2.2 - 20.335, 21.134 21.04

The Monitor for CICS TCE 2.3 including cics/ts 3.1 22.08

The Monitor for MVS/ESA 1.3 - 12.05

The Monitor for MVS/ESA 1.5 - 12.05

The Monitor for MVS/ESA 2.0 - 15.09

The Monitor for MVS/ESA 3.0 - 19.19

The Monitor for CICS/TS V2.3 for CICS/TS 3.1 22.08
Candle

Omegamon for CICS V200 User SMF 12.05

Omegamon for CICS V300 User SMF 13.06

Omegamon for CICS V400 User SMF 16.02

Omegamon for CICS V400 type 110 segments 16.02

Omegamon for CICS V500 User SMF 18.01

Omegamon for IMS V110 (ITRF) 12.12

Omegamon for IMS V300 (ITRF) 14.04

Omegamon for IMS V550/V560 (ITRF) 25.05

Omegamon for MVS V300 13.05

Omegamon for MVS V400 13.06

Omegamon for DB2 Version 2.1/2.2 13.05

Omegamon for VTAM V160 12.04A

Omegamon for VTAM V400 15.15

Omegamon for VTAM V500 18.08

Omegamon for SMS V100/V110 12.03

CA

ACF2 6.2 16.04

ASTEX 2.1 14.04

NETSPY 4.7 14.03

NETSPY 5.0 14.03

NETSPY 5.2 16.05

NETSPY 5.3 18.03

NETSPY 6.0 20.10 20.305

NETSPY 7.0 20.10 20.305

SAR/VIEW R11 23.07 23.196

BMC, was Boole & Babbage

IMF 3.1 (for IMS 5.1) 12.12

IMF 3.2 (for IMS 6.1 only) 15.09

IMF 3.2 (for IMS 5.1 and 6.1+) 16.04

IMF 3.3 (for IMS 7.1 and 8.1) 22.08*

IMF 4.1 (for IMS 9.1) 22.08

Memorex/Telex

LMS 3.1 12.12A

Oracle V9, V10 24.06

Amdahl

APAF 4.1, 4.3 16.08

Velocity Software

XAMAP 3.4 22.10

XAMAP 3406 24.03

XAMAP 3.7 25.04
II. Incompatibilities and Installation of MXG 25.11.

1. Incompatibilities introduced in MXG 25.11:

a- Changes in MXG architecture made between 25.11 and prior versions

that can introduce known incompatibilities.

NTSMF Weekly/Monthly processing will fail on BLKBERRY dataset due

to new variable in the BY list. See Change 25.015 for required

actions you must take prior to running the Weekly/Monthly. The

incompatibility was introduced by Change 24.162 in MXG 24.06.

Change 25.189 revised %READDB2/%ANALDB2R when PDBOUT=, is null.

Now, ALL output datasets are written to //WORK, which was intended

when PDBOUT=null, but that did not always happen.

The error corrected was that a simple report with %ANALDB2R

failed if there was no //PDB DD name, because MXG tried used the

default DDnames, and did not force them to //WORK as desired.

That correction created a new exposure if you actually did have

a //PDB DD name, if you had changed DDNAME defaults with

%LET PDB2ACC or MACRO _LDB2ACC or _WDB2ACC,

and if you did not specify PDBOUT=PDB; Change 25.189 now caused

zero observations in PDB.DB2ACCT.

So if you want output datasets created by %READDB2/%ANALDB2R, you

must specify

PDBOUT=PDB (which works as documented, output all to //PDB), or

PDBOUT=YES (which outputs to the (tailored) default DDNames, or

PDBOUT=ZZZ (which outputs everything to ZZZ DDname).

Change 25.284, in MXG 25.25, corrected the original Change 25.189.
2. Installation and re-installation procedures are described in detail

in member INSTALL (which also lists common Error/Warning messages a

new user might encounter), and sample JCL is in member JCLINST9 for

SAS Version 9.1.3 (JCLINST8 for SAS Version 8.2).

MXG Definitions with regard to MXG Software Changes:
COMPATIBLE A change in a data record which did not alter either

the location or the format of all of the previously-

kept MXG variables is COMPATIBLE, and you can continue

to run the old version of MXG software, which will read

the new records without error, but none of any new data

fields or any new record subtypes will be created/kept

until you install the MXG Version with this change.

A change that alters any previously kept variable is

INCOMPATIBLE, and requires the new version to be used.
TOLERATE In other words, the old MXG Version TOLERATES the new

data records, if they are COMPATIBLY changed.

EXPLOIT Once you use the new MXG Version to read the changed

records, all of the new fields, subtypes, etc, that are

described in this change will be created in the MXG

datasets, so the new MXG Version EXPLOITS the new data,

and you have full support of the new data records.
INCOMPAT A change in a data record that causes the current MXG

version to fail, visibly or invisibly, with or without

error conditions or messages, and the output datasets

may contain wrong values and incomplete observations,

and/or observations may have been lost.
You MUST install the new MXG Version with this change

to process data records that have been INCOMPATIBLY

changed by their vendor.

III. Online Documentation of MXG Software.

MXG Documentation is now described in member DOCUMENT.

See also member INDEX, but it may be overwhelming.

IV. Changes Log
--------------------------Changes Log---------------------------------
You MUST read each Change description to determine if a Change will

impact your site. All changes have been made in this MXG Library.

Member CHANGES always identifies the actual version and release of

MXG Software that is contained in that library.

The CHANGES selection on our homepage at http://www.MXG.com

is always the most current information on MXG Software status,

and is frequently updated.
Important changes are also posted to the MXG-L ListServer, which is

also described by a selection on the homepage. Please subscribe.

The actual code implementation of some changes in MXG SOURCLIB may be

different than described in the change text (which might have printed

only the critical part of the correction that need be made by users).
Scan each source member named in any impacting change for any comments

at the beginning of the member for additional documentation, since the

documentation of new datasets, variables, validation status, and notes,