Ordering Maintenance

Keeping your maintenance up-to-date using Autofix will keep your system running with fewer interruptions. Have you ever encountered a software problem only to find out that it was already fixed but the fix was not applied to your system? Applying maintenance saves you and your organization from lost time by preventing errors from occurring.

Software Maintenance

Software Maintenance is delivered to you in the following two forms:

1. New releases of the software, includes both new features and software maintenance. The maintenance is "pre-applied" to the source code, thus, there is no work for you to do to apply it.
2. Autofix maintenance updates, an automated system to assist you in applying periodic maintenance between releases.

When a new release becomes available, a letter will be sent to your site announcing the availability of the release. When your site is ready to upgrade, the software will be shipped to you on request. The announcement letter will include a brief form to speed up the processing of your request.

Autofix

Autofix is CCA's early warning maintenance system, providing an easy method for applying maintenance to CCA products. The Autofix system is distributed on tape or cartridge. This system is a full screen 3270 application which enables the user to perform the following functions:

	Display early warnings based on selection criteria.
	Build job stream input (for user's operating system) to test, backout (z/OS and z/VM only), or apply selected MODEL 204 early warnings.
	Apply selected MODEL 204 application software product and Dictionary early warnings or route fixes to a user specified procedure file for review before applying them.
	Display early warnings applied to Dictionary, Workshop, XREF, Access, and Target, when those early warnings were applied via Autofix.
	Identify early warnings that have prerequisite early warnings.
	Build customized flat files of early warnings (for user's operating system) to be used as a backup.

Autofix supports at minimum the latest release of each supported product and for many products the maintenance for two releases will be on the Autofix tape.

You will find Autofix to include maintenance for the following products:

An updated Autofix tape is available by request only. The Autofix tape may be requested by returning your latest tape to the CCA Customer Service Center, or by requesting this online.