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Manage Maintenance

After maintenance has been downloaded for a product, you can manage the maintenance in an existing SMP/E product installation environment.

Important! Before you start, update the HOLDDATA in your software catalog. To do so, click Update HOLDDATA in the Actions section on the Software Catalog page. You can also set up the automatic HOLDDATA download.

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.

The following installation modes are available:

Receive and Apply

Receives the maintenance and applies it to the selected target zone of the SMP/E environment.

Receive and Apply Check

Receives the maintenance and checks if the maintenance can be applied to the selected target zone of the SMP/E environment.

Receive, Apply Check, and Apply

Receives the maintenance, checks if the maintenance can be applied to the selected target zone of the SMP/E environment. Then applies it, if possible.

Receive Only

Receives the maintenance.

The process starts a wizard that guides you through the maintenance steps. At the end of the wizard, a task dynamically invokes the SMP/E and other utilities that are required to apply the maintenance.

Note: You can also manage maintenance to an SMP/E environment using the SMP/E Environments, Maintenance tab.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Products tab, and select the product from the tree on the left side.

   Maintenance information appears on the right side for the releases you have.

2. Click the Release Name link.

   The maintenance packages are listed.

3. Click the Fix # link for each maintenance package you want to install to review details.

   The Maintenance Package Details dialog appears, identifying any prerequisites.

4. Review the information in this dialog, including any HOLDDATA information about this fix, and click Close to return to the Maintenance Packages section.
5. Select the maintenance packages that you want to install, and click the Install link.

   Note: The Installed column indicates whether a package is installed.

   The Introduction tab of the wizard appears.

6. Review the information about the maintenance, and click Next.

   The packages to install are listed.

7. Review and adjust the list selections as required, and click Next.

   The SMP/E environments that contain the product to maintain are listed. Only environments in your working set A working set is a selected group of SMP/E environments with which you want to work. Future displayed information will be based on the working set. For example, maintenance information is shown for the working set. The information is not shown for environments outside the set. are listed.

8. Select the environments in which you want to install the packages.
9. Click Select Zones to review and adjust the zones where the maintenance is installed. You can only perform maintenance actions on zones you select here. Click OK to confirm the selection and return to the wizard, and click Next.

   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.

10. Select the installation mode for the selected maintenance, and click Next.
    • If prerequisites exist and are available, review them and click Next. The prerequisites are installed as part of the process. If a prerequisite is not available, the wizard cannot continue. Acquire the prerequisite and restart the process.
    • Review HOLDDATA entries, if they exist, and click Next.
      • Clear check boxes for the HOLDDATA entries that you want to bypass during processing. CA CSM ignores these HOLDDATA entries and applies the related SYSMODs.
      • Click Export Table to open all HOLDDATA information for all selected maintenance in a separate browser window. Clicking Export Table is similar to running the LIST SYSMODS HOLDDATA command within your SMP/E environment.

    SMP/E work DDDEFs of SMPWRKx and SYSUTx, with their allocation parameters, are listed.

    Note: For more information about SMPWRKx and SYSUTx data sets, see the IBM SMP/E for z/OS Reference.

11. Review the work DDDEF allocation parameters, and edit them, if necessary, to verify that sufficient space is allocated for them during the maintenance installation:

    Note: Changes in the allocation parameters apply to the current maintenance installation only.

    1. Click Override for a DDDEF to edit its allocation parameters.

       A pop-up window opens.

    2. Make the necessary changes, and click OK to confirm.

       The pop-up window closes, and the DDDEF entry is selected in the list indicating that the allocation parameters have been overridden.

    Note: To update allocation parameters for all DDDEFs automatically, click Retrieve DDDEF. CA CSM provides values for all DDDEFs based on the total size of the selected maintenance packages being installed. All DDDEF entries are selected in the list indicating that the allocation parameters have been overridden.

    • If you want to cancel a parameter update for any DDDEF, clear its check box.
    • If you want to edit the allocation parameters for a particular DDDEF after you automatically updated them using the Retrieve DDDEF button, click Override. Make the necessary changes, and click OK to confirm and return to the wizard.
12. (Optional) Review SMP/E work DDDEF and their allocation parameters for the selected SMP/E zones, and click Close to return to the wizard.

    Note: Sometimes the allocation parameters differ from the allocation parameters that you obtained using the Retrieve DDDEF button.

    Click Next.

    A summary of the task appears.

13. Review the summary, and click Install.

    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.

The task applies the maintenance. You can accept the maintenance (except USERMODs) using the SMP/E Environments, Maintenance tab.

Note: CA CSM prevents you from accepting USERMODs.