SMP/E for z/OS Workshop

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SMP/E for z/OS Workshop

Course code: ES26G

Duration: 4.5 Days

Prerequisite:

•    Use basic JCL statements
•    Describe the use of the following z/OS utility programs: assembler, linkage editor, IEBCOPY, IEBUPDTE, and AMASPZAP
•    Identify the access method services commands and parameters used in creating a VSAM KSDS
•    Use ISPF/PDF panels
•    Fundamental Practical System Skills in z/OS, (ES10) (ES10A)
•    z/OS VSAM and Access Method Services, (SS83) (H3840)

Course Description:

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

Course Objectives:

After taking this course, you should be able to:

•    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 
o    Implement support for communication server FTP client
o    Use the new RECEIVE ORDER command to order and install z/OS maintenance automatically over the Internet

Intended 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.

Course Outlines:

•    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
•    Error analysis
•    SMP/E commands such as:
o    RECEIVE
o    APPLY
o    ACCEPT
o    RESTORE
o    REPORT
o    LIST