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Once SMP/E selects the elements or fixes, SMP/E installs them into target and distribution libraries. Target libraries contain the executable programs of the running system. Distribution libraries contain the master copy of the programs and create the target libraries. The distribution libraries can also act as backup libraries or input into the SYSGEN process.
It is important to know what is in system libraries. You might have duplicate copies or different releases of a product that you did not know about. You should ensure that vendor billing documents agree with what is on your system. SMP/E also might not know about some of these, so these products probably are not properly maintained. If you discover a product that SMP/E does not know about, you should investigate further.
You can use CA Auditor to tell you what products are installed in a given library. The Product Identity Selection Display (2.3.4) compares the contents of a given library to the CSI to find each module’s associated FMIDs, uses these FMIDs to find other product information in the CA Auditor database, and displays this information. For each product it recognizes, you see the program name, its alias (if any), the FMID, description, and vendor.
This display is similar to the Program Origin display (5.1), but it uses information contained in the CSI with the CA Auditor database to identify program products. The Program Origin display uses standard naming conventions to identify the product. Although the Product Identity display relies on more specific data for its comparison, you might still use the Program Origin display to find the name of a program when, for example, a product uses an unrecognizable FMID or does not have an FMID.
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