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Migrate an SMP/E Environment

You can use CA CSM to maintain products that were installed previously using SMP/E by placing the relevant SMP/E environments under CA CSM management.

You can add to CA CSM information about an SMP/E environment that is created outside of CA CSM from the SMP/E Environments tab. The process starts a wizard that guides you through the migration.

Migrating an existing SMP/E environment to CA CSM enables you to use CA CSM to manage the products that are installed using that SMP/E environment. For example, you can apply maintenance to the installed products.

Some zones of the migrated SMP/E environment can have missing or partially populated DDDEF entries. CA CSM requires DDDEFs to maintain previously installed products successfully. For those SMP/E environment zones, you obtain the missing DDDEFs from the original product SMP/E installation JCL during SMP/E environment migration. This JCL is the member that is used to install the SMP/E product using the Receive (or Apply and Accept) functions.

Note: We recommend that you use your product installation JCL when migrating an SMP/E environment to CA CSM to ensure product SMP/E environment integrity.

Follow these steps:

  1. Click the SMP/E Environments tab, and click the Migrate SMP/E Environment link in the Actions section on the left side.

    You are prompted to identify the SMP/E environment.

  2. Define a meaningful name for the environment, specify the data set name of the SMP/E environment you want to migrate, and click Next.

    The functions in the SMP/E environment are listed.

  3. Review the information, and click Next.

    A list of zones with DDDEF associations appears.

  4. (Optional) For the zones that do not have DDDEFs or have them partially populated, obtain them from your product installation JCL.

    Note: We recommend that you use your product installation JCL and verify that all SMP/E environment zones have required DDDEFs.

    1. Specify the required JCL data set and member in the DDDEF JCL field and click Get DDDEFs from JCL.

      Note: If the used JCL contains cataloged procedures specify, in which data set they are stored in the PROCLIB Data Set field.

      A pop-up window appears displaying obtained DDDEFs and the zones.

    2. Select the zone that you want to associate DDDEFs with.

      A list of DDDEFs appears. All DDDEFs are selected by default.

    3. Clear the check boxes for those DDDEFs that you do not want to add to the zone. Repeat for each zone that you want to add DDDEFs to. Click OK.

      The selected DDDEFs are associated with the zones, and the pop-up window closes.

      • If some DDDEFs from the list cannot be added to the zone or they exist in the zone, the corresponding check boxes are disabled. Also, you cannot select the DDDEFs from the list.
      • If you want to resolve the associations between the zones and DDDEFs automatically, click Discover. CA CSM scans the zones and associates appropriate DDDEFs with the zones found in JCL. The associated DDDEFs are selected in the list, and the check boxes are disabled. Once you added DDDEFs using the Discover button, you can remove them only by canceling the whole process of migrating the SMP/E environment.

    Note: You can sequentially use several JCLs for adding DDDEFs to zones.

  5. (Optional) Review and update the DDDEFs obtained from JCL for each zone individually:
    1. Click Manage DDDEFs for the zone whose DDDEFs you want to review individually or change.

      A pop-up window appears displaying a list of DDDEFs for the zone.

    2. Review the list of DDDEFs and select (to add to a zone) or clear (to remove from a zone) the corresponding check boxes.

      Note: If some DDDEFs from the list cannot be added to the zone or they exist in the zone, the corresponding check boxes are disabled. Also you cannot select the DDDEFs from the list.

    3. Click Close to save changes and return to the wizard.
  6. Click Next.

    If any file systems mounted to the path specified in the DDDEFs are found, a list of the file systems is displayed.

  7. Review the file systems. If there are file systems that you want to add as managed product USS file systems, select them. Click Next.

    Zones of the migrated SMP/E environment are listed.

    Note: Only the existing zones, and the zones to which you have access, appear.

  8. Specify a prefix for each zone and click Next. Prefixes are only used as HLQ defaults during future base installations into the same SMP/E environment. If necessary, these defaults can be overridden during the base installation.

    A list of advanced options appears.

    Note: The prefix for the global zone is defined automatically, and you cannot change it.

  9. Review the list of options available and select the ones that you want to apply to the migrated SMP/E environment:
    Add SMP/E Environment to Working Set

    Adds the migrated SMP/E environment to your working set.

  10. Click Next.

    The summary page appears.

  11. Review the information, and click Migrate.

    Note: To see UCLIN statements for the zone DDDEFs, click Show UCLIN at the bottom.

    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.

    After the migration is successfully completed, information about the SMP/E environment and associated products is saved in the CA CSM database. The migrated environment appears on the tree in the SMP/E Environments section on the left side.

More information:

SMP/E Environment Does Not Appear on the Tree