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1.2 PSP Online Services


 PSP (Product Support Program) Online is an automated tool for
 applying product changes to CA MICS. PSP Online allows the CA
 MICS system administrator to browse available PSP
 distribution material (changes and this guide) under ISPF,
 investigate problems and fixes, resolve prerequisite and
 corequisite requirements, and prepare fixes for application
 using specialized CA MICS panels.
 
 Applying product changes with PSP Online also produces an
 audit trail of applied changes.  This audit trail is central
 to the functions of recognizing automatic prerequisite and
 corequisite changes and checking application integrity.
 
 PSP Online is a CA MICS subsystem that is a set of ISPF
 dialogs.  The PSP Online dialogs are executed under the
 control of the CA MICS Workstation Facility (MWF), the CA
 MICS ISPF application driver.
 
 Before you can operate PSP Online, you must install the CA
 MICS Workstation Facility. You can do this using the
 instructions in the PIOM, Sections 3.3.6 and 4.4.1.
 
 To initialize PSP Online, follow the directions in Appendix D
 of this guide.