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Apply Preventive Maintenance

Important! The dsnpref.OWC2.CC2DLINK data set must be in your system linklist before you start the maintenance. You can also create a STEPLIB to the data set name (DSN) in your TSOPROC. If you installed the product using CA CSM, use CA CSM to apply the maintenance.

The product maintenance is provided as system modification program (SMP) fixes. The fixes consist of PTFs applied using the IBM System Modification Program/Extended (SMP/E) tool.

Note: If an installed SMP fix contains maintenance for the VSAM data sets, update those VTAM data sets for each region you have set up.

The RAMDB maintenance is provided as SMP/E PTFs. However, this methodology is only for delivery and recordkeeping. Apply the maintenance using $RMDB04D.

This section describes how to apply individual SMP fixes using the Install Utility.

Note: The individual SMP fixes are only available from the CA Support site.

When you receive the SMP fixes, unload them into one of the following data sets:

• A sequential data set
• A member of a partitioned data set

Multiple SMP fixes can be appended into a single data set or member.

Follow these steps:

1. Access the ISPF/PDF Primary Menu.
2. Select the COMMAND option.

   The ISPF Command Shell panel appears.

3. At the command prompt, enter the following command:

   EXEC 'dsnpref.OWC2.CC2DJCL(INSTALL)'
   

4. At the Install Utility title panel, press Enter.

   The Install Utility Primary Menu panel appears.

5. At the Install Utility Primary Menu panel, enter 8 (Maintain Products).

   The MAINTENANCE Primary Menu panel appears.

6. Enter 3 (Apply individual SMP fixes from a DASD data set).

   The MAINTENANCE DASD Fixes Dataset Name panel appears.

7. Enter the data set name that contains the SMP fixes to be applied and press Enter.
8. Complete the fields on the following MAINTENANCE panels as they open.
9. At the MAINTENANCE JCL Library Creation panel, review your fix JCL library.

   The default library name is:

   dsnpref.OWC2.FIX.DASD.JCL
   

   dsnpref

   Is the same data set prefix that you used for the dsnpref.OWC2.CC2DJCL data set.

   Note: Each time when you apply maintenance, use a new output data set. A new data set ensures that the only jobs in your maintenance JCL library are the jobs that are required for the maintenance. To use a new data set:

   • Delete the library by issuing a TSO DELETE command and the library name, at the command prompt.
   • Specify a new data set name.
10. Press Enter to proceed with the generation of the maintenance JCL.

    When the JCL generation is complete, a list of generated jobs and a description of each member appears.

11. Note the name of the data set into which the JCL was generated.
12. Submit and run the following jobs in sequence. Do not proceed with any job until the previous job has completed successfully.

    Each job must complete with return code 0 unless otherwise indicated.

    F11RCSMP

    SMP/E receives the maintenance and lists existing HOLDDATA and SOURCEIDs that are already applied. If a job step returns condition code 04, there is no HOLDDATA present.

    Review the information. For any held APARs that you want to apply, add the correct BYPASS HOLDx operands to the corresponding APPLY control statement for those APARs. Add the operands by manually editing the F12APSMP job that contains the SMP control statements.

    Note: For information about the BYPASS HOLDx operands, see IBM SMP/E Commands guide.

    F12APSMP

    SMP/E applies the maintenance.

13. Press F3.

    The Install Utility Primary Menu panel appears.

If the fix contains maintenance for VSAM data sets (as indicated by HOLDDATA), update the VSAM data sets for the regions you have set up. Otherwise, you have finished applying the fix.