Managing Software Changes (G06.25+, H06.03+, J06.03+)

Release Management Overview
Managing Software Changes—427169-005
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Software Product Revisions (SPRs)
Requisite SPRs
There are two types of requisite SPRs:
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One type provides specific function or data that must be present in your software
configuration for a specific fix or feature in a requiring SPR to be fully functional if
you use the requisite product.
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The other type is required when using the requiring SPR to maintain compatibility,
because the requiring SPR removed function on which another product depends.
The cited requisite is a new SPR for the other product that maintains that product’s
function without depending on the removed function.
A requisite SPR is needed only if you use the product to which it applies. You can
ignore cited requisites for products you do not use. Certain requisites, that might be
needed only under certain conditions, can be ignored if you determine that the
conditions do not apply to your computing environment.
See also Evaluating Requisite SPRs on page 3-8 and Researching Conditional
Requisites on page 3-10.
The softdoc describing an SPR lists any requisite SPRs. These SPRs can be for the
same product as the requiring SPR, but are typically for a different product.
Different environments can have different requisites:
T9756AAA Visual Inspect Server:
Requisite SPRs: T9673AAS INSPECT for D3x.xx RVUs
T9226AAB INSPECT Subsystem for D4x.xx RVUs
A requisite might also be required only for very specific conditions:
Requisite SPRs: T6991ACE
T6989ACE
NOTE: T6989ACE is needed only if ALL of these conditions are
true.
a) The customer has Gateway applications.
b) MTA might get messages with extensions.
c) These messages might be transferred from MTA to GIP.
If you are using Scout for NonStop Servers, you can submit an online search request
for requisite SPRs.
Note that when SPRs have conditional requisites–that is, they require different SPRs
depending on the specific RVU, the presence or use of particular products, or whether
you use certain features–the results displayed by Scout for NonStop Servers can be
misleading or, in rare cases, incorrect. As a precaution, you should manually research
SPRs by reviewing softdocs to validate the requisites for your software configuration,
particularly whenever Scout displays more than one requisite for the same product
number for a given SPRs. See Evaluating Requisite SPRs on page 3-8 for additional
information.