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CSI Entries

CSI data sets contain entries that SMP/E uses to maintain your system. You create these entries by using SMP/E commands, or SMP/E automatically creates them during system and product installation. You can use CA Auditor to analyze these entries and tell you whether SMP/E maintains a given program or applied a fix to a particular control section (CSECT) of a program. A control section is the smallest grouping of code that the linkage editor can process.

Target and distribution zone entries describe the status and structure of their corresponding libraries. CA Auditor uses LMOD and MOD entries to determine whether SMP/E correctly maintains a library.

LMOD entries

Contain the information that SMP/E needs to update or replace a given load module. LMOD subentries describe which libraries a load module resides in and various link‑edit information about the load module

MOD entries

Describe one or more CSECTs. MOD entries list all of the load modules that a CSECT was link‑edited into. This lets SMP/E identify the affected load modules when a change is applied to a particular CSECT. MOD entries also describe the function and service level (that is, version) of each CSECT. SMP/E updates appropriate MOD subentries whenever a fix is applied to a CSECT. These subentries, called modification identifiers, tell CA Auditor whether SMP/E applied a change to a given CSECT:

• Function Modification Identifier (FMID)—Identifies the function system modification (SYSMOD) of an element. For example, the FMID HBB7707 identifies the program product, z/OS Version 1 Release 4.
• Replacement Modification Identifier (RMID)—Identifies the last SYSMOD that replaced a CSECT.
• Update Modification Identifier (UMID)—Identifies the SYSMODs that changed a CSECT. SMP/E adds the SYSMOD ID of the change to the UMID list associated with the entry. It remains there until the CSECT is totally replaced. At the time the CSECT is replaced, a new RMID value is determined and the old UMID list is cleared.