Compatibility

Compatibility of Beta Systems products with z/OS

All product releases of Beta 48, Beta 77, Beta 85, Beta 88, Beta 89, Beta 91, Beta 92, Beta 93, Beta 93 - Fast Retrieval, and Beta 93 - Document Transformer that are still in maintenance will run under the z/OS releases currently maintained by IBM

Usually within a three-month period following the release of a new version of z/OS, Beta Systems performs tests to verify the executability of the above-mentioned Beta Systems products with the new version of the operating system. You will find the known recommendations on this page:

Please check our ftp server regularly: ftp://ftp.betasystems.com/pub  
Here you will find the recommended PTFs and patches released for your product level.

 

Note on z/OS 1.10 support 

Beta Systems products based on BSA Version 4 run under z/OS 1.10, provided that the Beta Systems z/OS 1.10 Support PTFs have been installed.

You will find more information on this page.

All supported Beta 77 und Beta 85 product releases will run under z/OS V1.10.

 

Note on z/OS 1.11 support 

Please note that as a minimum the PTF levels required for z/OS 1.10 must be installed.

Note on Beta 88
From z/OS 1.11, SMF download program IFASMFDP in conjunction with IRRADU00 automatically sets the LRECL of the output dataset to 12288 (previously 8192).
This means that PTFs are needed for Beta 88. These PTFs can be downloaded from the Beta FTP server ftp://ftp.betasystems.com/pub/BETA88/.

Note on Beta 85 V2R2M2
IBM has introduced a new parameter: 'YES=ALL'. This parameter enables all the backup copies of a file to be deleted, and must be used from z/OS 1.11 onwards. To allow for this change, IBM provides two PTFs that maintain the consistency of version 1.11 with previous releases: UA48183 (for V1.10) and UA48184 (for V1.9). These PTFs cause the new 'YES=ALL' parameter to be ignored in the previous versions. You will find more information on this APAR here:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA29178
If you want to run Beta 85 V2R2M2 with z/OS 1.11, please contact Beta Systems Support (support@betasystems.com) beforehand. We will send you the necessary modifications for Beta 85 V2R2M2.

 

If you are using IBM's fee-based "IBM Lifecycle Extension" support for your z/OS 1.7 or z/OS 1.8 operating system: please contact Tech-Info@betasystems.com.

 

Please refer to this page for a list of the Beta Systems products currently in maintenance.

For further technical information on supported operating systems and compatibility of other Beta Systems products, please contact Tech-Info@betasystems.com.

 

Compatibility of Beta Systems products with IBM zSeries

Our products Beta 48, Beta 77, Beta 85, Beta 88, Beta 89, Beta 91, Beta 92, Beta 93, Beta 93 - Fast Retrieval and Beta 93 - Document Transformer currently in maintenance run on the platforms zSeries 800, zSeries 890, zSeries 990, zSeries z9 and zSeries z10 under the operating system z/OS.

We can only confirm this compatibility for operating system releases which are still in maintenance by IBM.

Please refer to this page for a list of the Beta Systems products currently in maintenance.

 

Compatibility of Beta Systems products with one another 

When deploying classic BSA-based Beta Systems products (Beta 91, Beta 92, Beta 93 etc.), please take into account that all systems that are to communicate with one another must run on the basis of the same BSA version. However, it is not possible to use the version number of the product concerned as the criterion for determining whether a product runs with BSA V3 or BSA V4.

In the following table, the "BSA Level" column shows you whether a product release runs with BSA Version 3 or BSA Version 4. The 3rd and 4th digits indicate the version and release of the BSA level that each product release requires. (E.g. 0842-02 indicates BSA Version 4 Release 2)


Note:
Beta 93 - Fast Retrieval V4R1 runs as of BSA V4R2.