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Event Management Maintenance Considerations

Event Management and Event Management utilities are installed into several different SMP/E target libraries:

• The traditional PDS and PDSE data sets like CNSMLOAD and CNSMPLD load libraries.
• Two USS zFS data sets:
  • Read-only zfs aggregate that contains the executables, scripts, HTML, and Java class files.
  • Read-write zfs aggregate that contains the system specific information such as Event Management log files, temporary files, and configuration files for that system.

When a new service pack becomes available, to perform maintenance without disrupting the running system

Important! Never use the SMP/E target libraries as your executable code. Always deploy the SMP/E target libraries at least once and run off the deployed data sets.

1. Confirm that no CA Common Services components are executing from the SMP/E environment.
2. Confirm the SMP/E DDDEFs are correct and have not been altered from the original installation.
3. Confirm that the SMP/E Target USS zfs data sets are mounted at the same point used during the SMP/E installation and are mounted for RW.
4. RECEIVE and APPLY the maintenance as usual to the SMP/E targets.
5. Run the pre-maintenance script CNSMJCL (EMPREMT) against your running libraries to save your production configuration. The script must be edited to point to the production mount point.
6. Re-deploy the SMP/E target data sets to the production system using a different HLQ and mount point. Temporarily mount both zFS files RW.
7. Run the post-maintenance script (EMPOSTMT) to restore the configuration. This script must point to the newly deployed USS zfs data set mount point.
8. Once the EMPOSTMT script has completed, you should be able to:
   1. Unmount the newly deployed zfs data sets
   2. Shut down the running product
   3. Unmount the running product zfs data sets
   4. Swap in all the newly deployed data sets as production

The SYS1.PARMLIB(BPXPRMxx) member should not require any changes, since the deployed zFS should be mounted at the same mount point as was previously used.