2. What version/release am I running?
Different platforms use different commands to show you product information. Many environments now comprise combinations of different platforms, operating systems, and products that all interact with the z/OS operating system in a distributed topology.
This information is vital to ensure that during problem analysis, we know exactly what system and product level we are dealing with and what maintenance has been applied to the product or module that is failing.
The sources of this information vary from the most obvious source, the system and job logs, to far more detailed interrogation using SMP/E and dump interrogation via IPCS.
In this chapter we discuss how to locate this important information.
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