BMC Mainframe: SMP/E for Installation & Maintenance
The course is developed and delivered by © RSM Technology.
An absolutely essential course for all z/OS Systems Programmers, this four-day course is a complete introduction to the use of SMP/E for installing new software and applying changes to existing software (PTFs, APARs, etc.) for the z/OS environment.
All the important aspects of using SMP/E are covered, including a detailed explanation of what happens 'under the covers'.
The course contains valuable and extensive hands-on exercises that demonstrate all the major aspects of using SMP/E to install products and apply maintenance
Major release:
BMC Mainframe Infrastructure Platform Training
Good for:
Users
Course Delivery:
Instructor-Led Training (ILT) | 32 heures
Course Modules
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SMP/E Overview
- What is 'System Modification Program Extended'?
- What makes a product?
- SMP/E elements
- How products are packaged
- System modifications
- SMP/E database
- Receiving a SYSMOD
- Applying, accepting and restoring a SYSMOD
- System Generation
- Consolidated Software Inventory
- CSI configuration option
- Invoking SMP/E
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RECEIVE Processing
- The RECEIVE process
- Modification Control Statements
- MCS: header statement functions, software environment statement
- The Global Zone definition entry
- GZONE entry example
- Global Zone options entry
- options entry example
- Global Zone utility entry
- Utility entry example
- SMP/E allocation
- Global Zone DDDEF entry
- DDDEF entry example
- Review of Global Zone entries
- Creating Global Zone entries – UCLIN
- Relative file packaged tapes
- Receive processing
- Global Zone sysmod entry example
- Exception sysmods
- Held sysmod entry example
- Holddata example
- tTe RECEIVE command
- Sysmod entry with SOURCEID example
- REPORT SOURCEID output examples
- SMP/E dialogs primary option menu & query selection menus
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APPLY Processing
- IProduct function & installation methods
- Target Zone definition entry
- TZONE entry example
- Target Zone DDDEF entry
- Target Zone DDDEF entry example
- Target Zone DDDEF PATH entry
- Target Zone DDDEF PATH entry example
- MAC, SRC, and MOD element MCS
- Data Element MCS
- Program Element MCS
- Identifying the target system structure
- How JCLIN processing works
- JCLIN processing example
- JCLIN report example
- JCLIN - MAC and ASSEM entries
- JCLIN - MOD and LMOD entries
- JCLIN - DLIB entries
- Invoking JCLIN
- The save control dataset
- Determining target libraries
- Apply processing
- Concatenating macro libraries for assemblies
- SYSLIB DDDEF example
- The APPLY command
- Target Zone SYSMOD entry example
- Element service level
- Target Zone MAC and SRC element entries
- Target Zone MOD and DATA element entries
- Base and dependent functions revisited
- Replacing an existing product
- Sysmod installation via the SMP/E dialogs
- SMP/E dialogs - sysmod management options
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ACCEPT Processing
- Function installation methods
- Distribution Zone definition entry
- DZONE entry example
- Distribution Zone DDDEF entries
- Distribution Zone DDDEF entry example
- ACCEPT processing
- Concatenating macro libraries for assemblies
- The ACCEPT command
- Distribution Zone SYSMOD entry example
- Distribution Zone MAC and SRC element entries
- Distribution Zone MOD and DATA element entries
- Sysmod installation via the SMP/E dialogs
- SMP/E dialogs - sysmod management options
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Product Maintenance
- Product maintenance (service)
- product maintenance sysmods
- product maintenance sysmod naming convention
- product maintenance ++VER statement
- Updating MAC and SRC elements
- Updating MOD (and LMOD) elements
- Sysmod relationships
- The prerequisite relationship
- The requisite relationship
- The supersede relationship
- The negative prerequisite relationship
- TZONE sysmod entries – examples
- Related APPLY command parameters
- Element service level
- Tracking the service level of an element
- Element entries - service level
- Exception sysmods
- Resolving error holds
- Resolving system holds
- The RELEASE MCS statement
- Maintenance exposure
- The REPORT ERROR SYSMODS command
- Sysmod regression
- Sysmod construction rules
- Managing regression
- Restore processing
- Concatenating macro libraries for assemblies
- The RESTORE command
- Sysmod relationships and restore
- Reject processing
- The REJECT command
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Additional SMP/E Features
- The conditional requisite relationship
- The REPORT CROSSZONE command
- Cross product 'borrowing' - the problem, the solution
- Cross zone 'borrowing' - the problem, the solution
- Callable services support
- Processing SYSLIB in JCLIN
- CALLIBS in LMOD element entries
- Installing LMODs that use CALLIBS
- The zone management commands
- Installing SYSGEN and SMP/E products
- The GENERATE command
- Tthe CLEANUP command
- Descriptive MCS statements
- Product and feature entries
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Installing Products and Service
- Reporting problems to the vendor
- Preparing for installation
- Installing maintenance
- Product delivery mechanisms used by IBM
- CustomPac service
- The Recommended Service Upgrade
- ShopzSeries
- PSP buckets
- HOLD FIXCAT
- Fix Categories
- Receiving FIXCAT HOLDs
- APPLY / ACCEPT FIXCAT operand
- REPORT MISSINGFIX command