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CSI Search

SMP/E uses the consolidated software inventory (CSI) to track and install changes to the operating system. The CSI is a VSAM-keyed sequential data set that is logically divided into zones. The three types of zones—global, target, and distribution—contain control information that SMP/E uses to process and track the maintenance and installation of fixes and products. CA Auditor compares the contents of the libraries that you select to the CSI. Typically, CSIs are separated into major product groups. This display permits you to select the CSI that governs the product you are interested in, such as z/OS, CICS, or IMS.

If you do not have access to the CSIs through your access security software, you can get a lot of violations. CA Auditor survives the violations unless the access security software cancels the TSO session.

To search the program library

  1. From the Primary Menu menu,select option 2.

    The System Installation Choices Menu is displayed.

  2. Select option 3.
  3. The Program Library Analysis Using SMP/E screen is displayed.
  4. Select option 1.

    The Program Library Analysis Using SMP/E screen is displayed. If no CSI list exists in the CA Auditor database, CA Auditor begins the CSI search without showing the prompt.

  5. To use the current CSI list, press Enter. To update this list, enter YES in the Create a new list using the system catalogs field.

    CA Auditor processes a new list and displays it on the SMP/E Global CSI List. This process can take a considerable amount of time if your site has many cataloged data sets.

  6. (Optional) If you interrupt the CSI search and ask to use the data sets gathered so far, CA Auditor displays a panel asking whether to save the new but possibly less complete list. Regardless of whether you save the new data set list in DBASE2, you can still use the partial list now to make a CSI selection the default to use during this session.
  7. To select one of the CSIs enter S (Select) next to it.

By default, CA Auditor includes all of the zones in its processing unless you limit the processing to a particular zone or group of zones. CA Auditor shows you the zones that this CSI contains on the SMP/E Zone Selection display.