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Apply and Accept Maintenance

Important! We strongly recommend that you use CA CSM to maintain your CA Technologies z/OS-based products. The procedure that is discussed in this section is fully automated when you use CA CSM.

Use this procedure to apply and optionally accept CA Technologies corrective maintenance.

Note: To review the CA Technologies mainframe maintenance philosophy, see your Best Practices Guide or visit the CA Data Center Management page.

Review the content concerning component configuration before you perform any maintenance.

CA Support Online can have maintenance and HOLDDATA that have been published after the installation data was created. In addition to maintenance found on CA Support Online, there can be maintenance that is already received into your SMP/E environment during the installation step that is associated with SAMPJCL member, AW03RECD.

Follow these steps:

  1. Check CA Support Online and download any PTFs and HOLDDATA published after this release was created. Also, browse the SMP/E data set SMPPTS created during the installation process for maintenance that was RECEIVED but not APPLIED or ACCEPTED during the installation process.
  2. Transfer the CA Support Online downloaded files to two separate FB 80 sequential data sets. Use one data set to contain the PTFs and the other to contain the HOLDDATA.

    The PTFs and HOLDDATA become accessible to the SAMPJCL maintenance members.

  3. The AW0SEDIT macro was customized in the installation steps. Verify that you still have the values from the installation.
  4. Open the SAMPJCL member AW06RECP in an edit session and execute the AW0SEDIT macro from the command line.

    AW06RECP is customized with your JOB statement, CSI location, and zone names.

  5. To reference the FB 80 data sets for the PTFs and HOLDDATA, customize the AW06RECP SMPPTFIN and SMPHOLD DD statements.
  6. Submit AW06RECP.

    The PTFs and HOLDDATA are received.

  7. Open the SAMPJCL member AW07APYP in an edit session and execute the AW0SEDIT macro from the command line.

    AW07APYP is customized.

  8. Submit AW07APYP.

    The PTFs are applied.

  9. (Optional) Open the SAMPJCL member AW08ACCP in an edit session and execute the AW0SEDIT macro from the command line.

    AW08ACCP is customized.

  10. (Optional) Submit AW08ACCP.

    The PTFs are accepted.

    Note: You do not have to submit the job at this time. You can accept the PTFs according to your site policy.