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Manage Maintenance in GROUPEXTEND Mode

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

Note: While working with a particular SMP/E environment, the SMP/E environment is locked and other CA CSM users cannot perform any action against it. When the task finishes, logging out from CA CSM, or a CA CSM session is inactive for more than 10 minutes, the lock releases.

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 an SMP/E environment being used in CA CSM by another user, a notification message appears. You are prevented from performing any actions on the SMP/E environment. You can either wait until the notification message disappears and the SMP/E environment becomes available, or click Cancel to select another SMP/E environment.

  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 that 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 that you want to apply are listed.

    Note: Click a link in the Status column for a maintenance package, if available, to review a list of zones. The zones indicate, 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 CSM does not automatically receive and display maintenance or HOLDDATA prerequisites that must be bypassed when applying the maintenance. Apply check mode lets you review 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 that is displayed 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 the ones that 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 you want to exclude in the Excluded SYSMODs field. You can enter several SYSMODs, separate them 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, separate them by a comma.
  9. Click Next.

    A summary of the task appears.

  10. Review the summary, and click Apply GROUPEXTEND.

    A dialog that shows the progress of the task opens. When the task completes, you can click Show Results on the Progress tab to close this dialog. The task output browser opens and you can 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.

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

Note: You cannot accept USERMODs in GROUPEXTEND mode. Providing you have not enabled NOUSERMODS option, you can install USERMODs that are prerequisites for the maintenance package being installed.