Managing Software Changes (G06.24+)

Evaluating Software Changes
Managing Software Changes—427169-003
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Where to Find the SPRs for Special Consideration
List
Where to Find the SPRs for Special Consideration List
You can use Scout for NonStop Servers to obtain the most recent SPRs for Special
Consideration list for the RVU to which you are upgrading.
You can also view the list in the TIM Support collection.
How to Evaluate the SPRs for Special Consideration List
1. Review the SPRs listed in the section “Install to avoid potential critical problems.”
2. Eliminate SPRs for products not on your system.
3. Eliminate SPRs already installed on your system or superseded by SPRs installed
on your system.
4. Consider first the SPRs marked as Outage Prevention Notifications (OPNs),
emergency overlays (EO), recalls (RC), or other Hotstuff (HS) messages.
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Use Scout for NonStop Servers to review the SPR Introduction Document
(SID) for each of the SPRs.
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If necessary, review the SPR’s softdoc to obtain additional details.
5. Ignore SPRs not relevant to your system.
6. At this point, and whenever you decide to install an SPR, check whether it
supersedes any SPRs you had already planned to install. If so, discard the
superseded SPRs.
7. Use Scout to obtain the SPRs you want to install. Perform requisite analysis on any
SPR whose needed requisites for your specific planned software configuration
have not been determined.