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Manage Maintenance in GROUPEXTEND Mode

CA MSM lets you invoke the SMP/E utility with the GROUPEXTEND option enabled for managing (applying and accepting) maintenance.

Note: While you are working with a particular CSI, the CSI is locked and other CA MSM users cannot perform any action against it. The lock is released when the task is finished, you log out from CA MSM, or your CA MSM session has been inactive for more than 10 minutes.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the SMP/E Environments tab, and select the SMP/E environment from the tree on the left side.

   A list of products installed in the SMP/E environment appears.

   Note: If you select a CSI that is being used in CA MSM by another user, a notification message appears. You are prevented from performing any actions on the CSI. You can either wait until the notification message disappears and the CSI becomes available, or click Cancel to select another CSI.

2. Click the Maintenance link.

   A list of maintenance packages for the products installed in the SMP/E environment appears.

3. Select the maintenance packages you want to apply in GROUPEXTEND mode, and click the Apply GROUPEXTEND link.

   The Introduction tab of the wizard appears.

4. Review the information about the maintenance, and click Next.

   The packages to be applied are listed.

   Note: If a link in the Status column for a maintenance package is available, you can click it to review a list of zones where the maintenance package is already received, applied, or accepted. Click Close to return to the wizard.

5. Review the packages, and click Next.

   The Prerequisites tab of the wizard appears.

   Important! For the GROUPEXTEND option, CA MSM does not automatically receive and display prerequisites for maintenance or HOLDDATA to be bypassed when applying the maintenance. Apply check mode lets you check if any prerequisites or HOLDDATA exist and report them in the task output. We recommend that you run the maintenance in Apply check mode first.

6. Read the information on this tab, and click Next.

   Installation options appear.

7. Specify installation options as follows, and click Next:
   1. Select the installation mode for the selected maintenance.
   2. Review the GROUPEXTEND options and select those you want to apply to the maintenance:

      NOAPARS

      Excludes APARs that resolve error reason ID.

      NOUSERMODS

      Exclude USERMODs that resolve error user ID.

   3. (Optional) Enter SYSMODs that should be excluded in the Excluded SYSMODs field. You can enter several SYSMODs separated by a comma.

   The Bypass HOLDDATA tab of the wizard appears.

8. (Optional) Enter the BYPASS options for the HOLDDATA that you want to bypass during the maintenance installation. You can enter several BYPASS options separated by a comma.
9. Click Next.

   A summary of the task appears.

10. Review the summary, and click Apply GROUPEXTEND.

    A dialog opens that shows the progress of the task. When the task completes, you can click Show Results on the Progress tab to close this dialog and open the task output browser to view the action details. Click Close to close the task output browser.

    Note: While a task is in progress, you can perform other work. You can click Hide to exit the dialog and view the task status later on the Tasks tab.

    • If you run the maintenance installation in Apply check mode and the task succeeds, review SMPRPT in the task output to check what SYSMODs were found and applied.
    • If you run the maintenance installation in Apply check mode and the task fails, review SMPOUT in the task output to check if there are missing (not received) SYSMODs or HOLDDATA that need to be resolved or bypassed.

You can accept the maintenance (except USERMODs) in the GROUPEXTEND mode using the SMP/E Environments, Maintenance tab. As a best practice, CA MSM prevents you from accepting USERMODs.

Note: Although you cannot accept USERMODs in GROUPEXTEND mode, you can install them if they are prerequisites for the maintenance package being installed, unless you have enabled the NOUSERMODS option.