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Earl Service Requirements

Earl Service has the following installation requirements:

• An IBM supported z/OS version.
• Earl Service requires CA Sort for z/OS, IBM DF/Sort, or a compatible product with the module name SORT.

The following lists the minimum storage requirements for each Earl Service distribution library and does not necessarily represent the actual distribution library allocation that is provided during the installation. Data set allocation JCL and (MSM) XML contains a block size of 0 for FB data sets with a LRECL of 80. This change was made in order to follow both IBM’s SMP/E packaging standards, and CA’s packaging standards. Specifying BLKSIZE=0 will allow your system to choose the most efficient block size for these data sets.