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Next Steps

You've collected the variables required to install and configure the Host Encyclopedia and Host Construction and accomplished these tasks:

• Unloaded software and allocated libraries
• Defined variables and executed jobs to establish the environment to access and use the encyclopedia

The next step is to create or upgrade the encyclopedia.

The CA Gen software for z/OS requires a set of DB2 tables, indexes, and views called ‘Host Encyclopedia’. The CA Gen models are uploaded from a workstation toolset or a client server encyclopedia into the host encyclopedia. The host encyclopedia software organizes and manipulates the CA Gen models. The host generators read the CA Gen models to generate model code. Host Construction is used to install the applications in the models.

You can create a new encyclopedia or upgrade an existing encyclopedia to handle CA Gen 8.5 models. Information to Create a New Encyclopedia is covered next. The Upgrading an Encyclopedia (in place) section explains updating the schema tables for an encyclopedia from a previous release so the encyclopedia can handle CA Gen 8.5 models.