SMP/E for z/OS Workshop
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Course Details
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