SMP/E for z/OS Workshop [ES26G]

OVERVIEW

This course is designed to provide the SMP/E skills needed in the installation and maintenance of optional features and maintenance in the z/OS operating environment. You are taught to define the SMP/E database and invoke SMP/E to add, modify, or replace system elements. The course includes extensive hands-on labs using a current level of SMP/E.

You will get practical experience in the SMP/E tasks involved in installing a z/OS product. Emphasis is on interpreting results of SMP/E processing. SMP/E concepts examined in this course include modification control statements, the consolidated software inventory, zone structure, and error analysis. SMP/E commands such as RECEIVE, APPLY, ACCEPT, RESTORE, REPORT, and LIST are discussed.

You will also learn how to perform automated SMP/E delivery of z/OS and product maintenance over the Internet with an automated SMP/E process that downloads and installs IBM preventive and corrective service over the Internet.

ERC5.7

OBJECTIVES

• Describe how SMP/E is used as a tool for system maintenance
• Interpret modification control statements in a sample SYSMOD
• Create a consolidated software inventory database to support installation and maintenance requirements
• Use the SMP/E dialogs to install a product and its related service
• Manage exception SYSMOD data
• Describe the use of the primary and secondary data sets required by SMP/E
• Analyze output from SMP/E processing and resolve commonly encountered problems
• Describe the use of the REPORT command to determine software dependencies between zones
• Use the BUILDMCS process to create a function SYSMOD from an installed product and its service
• Use the new SMP/E functions to install software service automatically over the internet
  • Implement support for communication server FTP client
  • Use the new RECEIVE ORDER command to order and install z/OS maintenance automatically over the Internet

AUDIENCE

This basic course is for system programmers with no prior SMP experience who plan to use SMP/E for system and subsystem maintenance and installation.

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CONTENT

 

1.      SMP/E overview                                                                                                                         

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                        

·       SYSMOD sources                                                                                                                                             

·       SMP/E processing                                                                                                                                           

·       Installation process                                                                                                                                         

2.      SYSMOD packaging                                                                                                                  

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                       

·       Modification control statements                                                                                                                     

·       Packaging techniques                                                                                                                                    

3.      Tracking element levels                                                                                                           

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

4.      Consolidated software inventory                                                                                                  

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

·       Control information                                                                                                                                                

·       Status information                                                                                                                                                  

·       Content and structure information                                                                                                                      

·       Zone management commands                                                                                                                             

5.      Execution requirements                                                                                                                 

·       Invoking SMP/E                                                                                                                                                       

·       SMP/E data sets                                                                                                                                                       

·       Dynamic allocation                                                                                                                                                 

6.      RECEIVE and REJECT                                                                                                                     

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

·       HOLDDATA                                                                                                                                                              

7.      APPLY processing                                                                                                                           

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

·       Operands                                                                                                                                                                  

·       SYSMOD selection                                                                                                                                                  

·       Applicability checks                                                                                                                                                

·       JCLIN processing                                                                                                                                                    

·       Element selection                                                                                                                                                   

·       Element installation                                                                                                                                               

·       CSI updates                                                                                                                                                             

·       Reports                                                                                                                                                                    

8.      ACCEPT processing                                                                                                                         

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

·       ACCEPT processing                                                                                                                                                

9.      RESTORE                                                                                                                                          

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

10.  BUILDMCS and LINK MODULE                                                                                                     

·       System structure                                                                                                                                                  

·       BUILDMCS command                                                                                                                                         

·       The LINK MODULE command                                                                                                                           

11.  LIST and REPORT commands                                                                                                      

·       LIST processing                                                                                                                                                   

·       REPORT command                                                                                                                                              

·       SMP/E scenarios                                                                                                                                                 

12.  SMP/E and the network                                                                                                               

·       SMP/E electronic delivery                                                                                                                                   

·       SMP/E Internet delivery enhancements                                                                                                         

13.  z/OSMF and the new installation and maintenance strategy (optional)