How to Install the CA Mainframe Connector for Linux on System z › Update the VSAM Data Sets

Update the VSAM Data Sets

If an installed SMP fix contains maintenance for VSAM data sets, select the maintenance option V of the Install Utility. The option updates the data sets for the regions you have set up.

Follow these steps:

1. Ensure that the dsnpref.CC2DLINK data set is in your system linklist.

   For example, include the following LNKLST statement in SYS1.PARMLIB(PROGxx):

   LNKLST ADD NAME(LNKLST00) DSNAME(dsnpref.CC2DLINK)
   

   Note: You can also create a STEPLIB to the data set name (DSN) in your TSOPROC (that is, allocate it to ISPLLIB).

2. Access the ISPF/PDF Primary Menu, and select the COMMAND option.

   The ISPF Command Shell panel appears.

3. At the command prompt, enter and execute the following command:

   EXEC 'dsnpref.CC2DJCL(INSTALL)'
   

   The Install Utility title panel appears.

4. Press Enter.

   The Install Utility Primary Menu panel appears.

5. Enter 6.

   The MAINTENANCE Primary Menu panel appears.

6. Enter V (Update MODS, PANELS and OSCNTL data sets with installed maintenance).

   The MAINTENANCE MPO Data Sets panel appears.

7. Review the information, and press Enter.

   The maintenance software generates the members in the dsnpref.CNTL data set.

8. Submit and run the job Mz7RFRSH.

   z

   Is a character that is used to identify the members generated from a fixes data set that contains maintenance for VSAM data sets.

   The job updates the VSAM data sets.

   Note: The utility also generates the following jobs: Mz90DUMP and Mz91REST. If a shared DASD is not available, the jobs help you deploy those updates to a target system. The Mz90DUMP job creates a backup data set. The data set includes the updated VSAM data sets, which you deploy to the target system. This backup data set is dsnpref.DFDSS.SHAREDz. The Mz91REST job, when submitted on the target system, restores the updated VSAM data sets from the backup data sets.

9. Press F3.

   The Install Utility Primary Menu panel appears.

10. Press F4 to exit the Install Utility Primary Menu panel and return to the ISPF Command Shell panel, or continue with the other options.