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Parmlib Information Option

The CA Auditor Parmlib Information option analyzes the contents of your system’s logical parmlib parameter library. You can request a map of the general Parmlib members and the specialized members to which they refer. You can determine the purpose of each member. And you can check Parmlib members for changes and browse their contents.

To analyze the contents of your system’s logical parmlib parameter library

1. Select option 2 from the Primary menu.

   The System Installation Choices menu is displayed.

2. Select option 1.

   The Parmlib Information screen is displayed.

3. You have two choices to identify the logical parmlib data sets to be selected for analysis:
   • The first, and the easiest, is to specify a single, specific data set such as SYS1.PARMLIB. By default, CA Auditor will use the catalogued version, so you want to select an alternate data set you can specify the volume serial number of the DASD volume on which the data set resides.
   • The preferred, and default approach, is to let CA Auditor identify the logical parmlib data sets to use based on pertinent IPL criteria which includes the SYSRES volume, the IODF volume, the LOADxx member suffix, and other information.

   You can override the following values, all of which are initially set to reflect pertinent values for the current IPL environment:

   • The IPL System Residence volume in effect for the current IPL
   • Either or both the IODF value and the LOADxx member suffix
   • The HWNAME value
   • The LPARNAME value
   • The VMUSERID value

By default, if the IPL unit, IODF unit, and LOADxx suffix are non-blank, CA Auditor will use them to select the logical parmlib data sets that would be in effect had the system been IPL’d in this configuration. To select only a single logical parmlib data set for analysis, ensure that you first blank out these three fields and then specify the single data set name and optionally it’s VOLSER name.