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Product Control Files

Each product PROFILE EXEC performs three functions:

• Issue SPOOL commands to ensure that product consoles and printers are properly defined.
• Link to the VMANAGER 1FF minidisk as 1FF and access it as filemode Z. (The link must be defined in the directory entry of the product service virtual machine.)
• Invoke PROFRUN, the product start-up program used by all product service virtual machines.

Each system administrator PROFILE EXEC has three responsibilities:

• Links to the VMANAGER 1FF minidisk as 1FF and access it as filemode Z.
• Links to the VMANAGER 195 minidisk as 1FE and access it as filemode X.
• Invokes VMADMIN, the system administrator start-up program.

You can modify the PROFILE EXEC, but the modified EXEC must still link and access the VMANAGER 1FF minidisk at 1FF as filemode Z, and must invoke PROFRUN or VMADMIN.

• Each product directory entry must contain these records:

  IUCV ALLOW

  OPTION MAXCONN nnnnn

  The variable nnnnn has a value of 1 to 65535. For example, for CA VM:Account, CA recommends that this number equal three times the number of logged-on users. See the default product directory entry in the product specific Installation Guide publication.

• Each product CONFIG (configuration) file specifies site-dependent controls and options for that product. Information such as interface parameters, tape management options, and user exits are contained in the configuration file.
• All products except CA VM:Sort, CA VM:Backup HiDRO, and CA VM:Spool V/Seg Plus must add a PRODUCT VMSISERV VMANAGER record to their configuration files. This record allows VMANAGER to perform product maintenance.