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Communicate Between Agents and Services

All z/OS-based agents must communicate with the Agent Technology for z/OS services running under USS. The agents communicate to Agent Technology Services through a TCP/IP socket connection. To facilitate this communication, the following modifications must be made to the JCL job-stream for the system being monitored:

• The Common Services load library must be added to the STEPLIB concatenation.
• The following DD statements must be added:

  ENVFILE

  Defines the pointer to the ENVFILE member within the CAW0OPTV library. This member contains configuration data that points the Agent to the appropriate TCP/IP Port and Stack and to the Agent Technology zFS.

  You can copy and rename this member so that the member is unique to the system and to the TCP/IP stack that Agent Technology runs on.

  SYSTCPD

  Defines the pointer to the TCPDATA file for the local TCP/IP Stack. This is the same file referenced in your TCP Startup proc. This file contains configuration data about the TCP/IP stack.

• Add any log or configuration files mandated by the specific agent being installed.