Appendix A. SETTING OPTIONAL PARAMETERS › A.2 Excluding Specific Products

A.2 Excluding Specific Products

The PSP distribution contains four PSP levels of product
changes.  These are for the current PSP and for the three
previous PSPs.  The standard PSP refresh job deletes all
maintenance on existing PSP data sets before it loads the
contents of the PSP distribution to DASD.  The refresh job
also determines if your CA MICS complex has any unapplied
product changes that are no longer available on the PSP
distribution. If any are found, the job abends before the
existing maintenance is deleted.

A time may occur when you want to exclude a product from the
refresh process in order to prevent the abend from occurring.
For example, if you have not maintained a product and you
plan to reinstall it, you will want to exclude that product
to prevent the abend.


CONSEQUENCES OF EXCLUDING PRODUCTS

When you exclude products from the PSP refresh process, you
will see the following changes:

 1. The excluded products do not appear on the product change
    status report.

 2. The refresh job does not abend if there are unapplied and
    unavailable product changes for the excluded products.

 3. No product changes for the excluded products are loaded
    from the PSP distribution to PSP libraries.

 4. PSP Online does not display any available product changes
    for the excluded products.

 5. PSP Online ignores product changes belonging to the
    excluded product if they are listed as corequisites or
    prerequisites.

 6. BAS cannot be excluded; attempts to exclude BAS will be
    ignored.

Excluding products from the refresh process is an extreme
measure and should be done only after thorough consideration
of potential consequences.  If there is any question about
whether to use this option, contact Technical Support. For
online assistance and a complete list of locations, primary
service hours, and telephone numbers, contact Technical
Support at http://ca.com/support.

HOW TO EXCLUDE PRODUCTS

To exclude products from the PSP refresh process, edit
sharedprefix.MICS.TAPELOAD.CNTL(PSPOVER) and add the
following statement:

  PRODEXCL = ccc

where ccc is the three-letter product identifier.

To exclude one or more products, separate their three-letter
identifiers by one or more spaces:

  PRODEXCL = ccc ccc

A list of excluded products is produced in the PSPLOG SYSOUT
data set.